Sometimes the right-click just stops working specifically on the Start Menu and/or the taskbar.

This article discusses how it can be fixed through restarting processes and replacing corrupt files.

Sometimes it requires a quick restart for everything to work normally again.

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it’s possible for you to restart the Explorer process by opening theTask Managerand navigate to theProcessestab.

Under the tab, look forWindows Explorer, right-click it and then click onRestart.

This should restartFile Exploreras well as the process running the task, including every operation utilizing the explorer.exe process.

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Here are a few other ways torestart the explorer.exe processwithout rebooting the computer.

Check to see if the issue has been resolved.

You may need to start your box for changes to take effect.

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You may also be prompted by some errors which can be ignored.

After the complete executing of the command, check to see if the issue is resolved.

If not, we still have a trick up our sleeves.

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Lets see how we can replace the content to fix the issue.

Which of these methods had worked for you?

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