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Windows - right click menu stuck - how to close
Hi,
the program was in the taskbar or in the status bar. I right-clicked to open the menu and clicked on “Exit”. However, the open right-click menu is still displayed. Apart from shutting down or switching to Linux, what is the easiest way to hide the open menu? The program has already been closed and is no longer in the task manager. Refresh desktop does not work. Exiting and restarting Explorer.exe does not work either. If the person concerned cannot name the program and restarting the PC is impossible, what is the easiest way to hide the menu?
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try Win+Ctrl+Shift+B
this refreshes the graphics driver entirely, some apps might crash (video players, web browsers etc)
I can’t guarantee this will fix the issue, but you can try pressing:
Ctrl + Shift + Win + B
It restarts your graphics driver and might clear any stuck visual elements like a frozen context menu.
Thank you! Can you think of another solution that might prevent open programs from crashing?
you can try disabling and renabling the display adapter in Device Manager, which will force windows to use the basic Microsoft display driver instead of your real one (amd, nvidia graphics etc)
That might also cause apps to crash, it all messes with very low level hardware that apps arent used to
Any idea what causes this stuck menu?
who the fuck knows with windows, probably the app is implementing the menus wrong or Explorer itself is bugging out
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edit: wrong thread
Windows is magic with menus. Sometimes you right click it, and it won't fucking close until you click a button on it.
Anyway, in case it's not a windows menu and some custom menu with the process open, try downloading process explorer, click the target on top and target the menu to find the process that it is.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
Shutdown seems pretty over the top, so I would just install Linux.
Microsoft at its finest
When i was little, I would go to cafe and watched many things..... Sometimes, some menus did get stuck. The restart button always comes to rescue.
Restart and run....
open a command prompt
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
Tried it but the stuck menu still appears.
What did process explorer say was the process of the menu?
Process of the menu was already terminated but menu was still seen and stuck
Did you set a screenshot as wallpaper or something? Try changing wallpaper or theme.
It's not a custom background.
Try moving to desktop 2
CRTL + WIN + right arrow this may hide it till reboot time.
Stop using wincrap. Use Fedora or Arch. It's way better.
Its not for everyone and the pc with this error is not my private computer. Elderly people, companies, ..... using windows
It is. Windows is just a standard and we are so used to that thought that we think anything other than the standard is bad for normies but it's not. Fedora with KDE is perfectly fine for people who have been using windows.
Isn't Fedora basically running unstable? As in, 6 month upgrade cycles?
No, where did you hear that?
Fedora. They have 6 month rolling upgrades. So more likely to run into new issues than LTS builds, not something you want grandma stuck with.