Major bug with Shell Extension on Windows 11
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2025 9:11 am
Hi,
I hesitated to add this message to the XnView forum because the Shell Extension installation was completed by accepting the option (checkbox) to install this add-on when installing the latest version.
The problem, after installing SE on Windows 11:
1 - The Explorer "Show other options" context menu takes nearly 10 seconds to appear on a very powerful PC (32GB RAM, P9 Evo, Nvidia graphics card). Then, depending on the case, Explorer crashes or not.
2 - Unable to launch a program in administrator mode: Explorer crashes.
On another PC on which XnView was installed without SE, I updated to 1.9.3 and tested the optional SE installation again. Result: same problems as above.
Since I couldn't find a way to uninstall Shell Extension through Windows Settings, I fixed the problem by uninstalling XnView and reinstalling it without the plugin.
The situation returned to normal on both PCs.
I hesitated to add this message to the XnView forum because the Shell Extension installation was completed by accepting the option (checkbox) to install this add-on when installing the latest version.
The problem, after installing SE on Windows 11:
1 - The Explorer "Show other options" context menu takes nearly 10 seconds to appear on a very powerful PC (32GB RAM, P9 Evo, Nvidia graphics card). Then, depending on the case, Explorer crashes or not.
2 - Unable to launch a program in administrator mode: Explorer crashes.
On another PC on which XnView was installed without SE, I updated to 1.9.3 and tested the optional SE installation again. Result: same problems as above.
Since I couldn't find a way to uninstall Shell Extension through Windows Settings, I fixed the problem by uninstalling XnView and reinstalling it without the plugin.
The situation returned to normal on both PCs.