WhyCrashed

registry location · risk: caution

An Explorer context-menu handler

What lives here

Registers a DLL that adds entries to right-click menus in Explorer.

What changing it does

The registered DLL loads into Explorer. Common for legitimate apps (archivers, editors); a bad one crashes Explorer or spies on file operations.

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