AMD Radeon Software Hanging Windows Explorer…

Posted on by dk

So, another day, another IT f*ck-up…

AMD’s in the crosshairs today. Due to having to muck around with AMD iGPUs in/on a WSL2-hosted Ubuntu LTS VM, I had to install an “older” AMD Radeon 26.2.2 driver…

Now, every time I right-clicked on a drive, a folder or a file in Windows Explorer, the stupid Radeon dashboard launches… and proceeds to “hang” Windows Explorer (with your mouse cursor turning into a spinning cursor) until something times out and hands Windows Explorer back its head…

  • No, killing the dashboard immediately does not give Windows Explorer back its head
  • No, attempting the registry hacks found across the ‘net did not help
  • No, disabling all non-Microsoft “Context Menu” items via ShellExView did not help

What did help was one of the suggestions by Google’s “AI Mode”!

i.e. F*ck Rename C:\Program Files\AMD\CNext\CNext\RadeonSoftware.exe (as an Administrator, of course).

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