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Quote from: Kryzon on October 29, 2021, 04:12:51
What is unregistering a library, and how do you do that?

how? just read along for half a sentence ... there it is, the magic command

QuoteThat pointed me in the right direction. After I unregistered the library which is related to loading the menu with RegSvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Drive CS4\ADFSMenu.dll", it now works normally.

What?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-use-the-regsvr32-tool-and-troubleshoot-regsvr32-error-messages-a98d960a-7392-e6fe-d90a-3f4e0cb543e5


bye
Ron

Quote from: Derron on October 29, 2021, 12:10:47

QuoteThat pointed me in the right direction. After I unregistered the library which is related to loading the menu with RegSvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Drive CS4\ADFSMenu.dll", it now works normally.

What?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-use-the-regsvr32-tool-and-troubleshoot-regsvr32-error-messages-a98d960a-7392-e6fe-d90a-3f4e0cb543e5

bye
Ron

Sorry bad gramma.
After I unregistered the library that adds it to the explorer context menu with RegSvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Drive CS4\ADFSMenu.dll", which is related to loading it's context menu, it works normally.  (that being File Explorer)

@That pointed me in the right direction.
Finding the culprit required using the Visual Studio debugger on explorer. The output log showed which libraries were being loaded/unloaded.

SIDE NOTES: Caution should be used when using RegSvr32. The last thing you want is to unregister a system DLL or cripple the application.
Adobe Drive CS4 is one of those components that always gets installed and has been known to cause problems with previous versions of Windows.
Photoshop CS4 doesn't need it to work.

RegSvr32 is used to manage OLE/COM controls dll's.

EDIT: I think https://adamtheautomator.com/regsvr32-exe/ is a better explanation of RegSvr32 usage.