Unlike most 'how to' tutorials online regarding this issue, you won't need to navigate through the registry editor (regedit) to make it work. I've written a small script to fix the right click desktop menu issue, plus it will preserve the 'New' It also introduces yet another 'side effect' issue which Jared has accuratelyĭescribed - the 'New' submenu is now missing. Using regedit in order to wipe out all the corrupted registry subkeys, but this is a very obfuscated approach to fixing the problem. The guides I've come across on the Internet state that the best way to deal with this is to manually edit the registry How to Fix: Right Click Desktop Not Working (Spinning Circle)Īfter researching this issue, it appears that the 'right click desktop menu broken with a spinning blue circle forever' issue has to do with a corrupt registry value. Remote desktop support service in order to have a closer look, and he agreed.īelow I will discuss my findings. I asked Jared if he would like me to connect to his machine using my Or create a new text document on the desktop. Instead of the blue circle) however, the 'New' submenu which is normally part Update: Since I've emailed you, I'veįound a few so-called guides online to fix my problem (the menu now appears I've left it alone for an hour but the right click keeps loading foreverĪnd never produces a menu like it should. Instead, the cursor circle keeps spinning forever. What normally appears is a dialogue menu that shows Display Settings, Personalize (the desktop), View, Sort by, and New (to create a folder, shortcut, text document, etc) - but When I right click on the desktop, all I get is aīlue circle. The right click on my desktop is not working.

Cannot right click on desktop