Hyper-V Manager: right-clicking on remote VM crashes MMC snap-in

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Published on 2012-10-29T21:28:27Z Indexed on 2012/11/03 23:04 UTC
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I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1 machine that I log into and use to manage virtual machines running on multiple Hyper-V servers on our domain. Sometimes, when I right-click on a remote VM, the Hyper-V Manager will crash and display the following error message:

Screenshot of Hyper-V Manager showing the error message "MMC has detected an error in a snap-in and will unload it."

If I use the Actions menu on the lower right, it works just fine, but for some reason right-clicking causes MMC to stop working. Is there any way to fix this issue? Here are the full details of the error message.

Description:
  Stopped working

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   CLR20r3
  Problem Signature 01: mmc.exe
  Problem Signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385
  Problem Signature 03: 4a5bc808
  Problem Signature 04: Microsoft.Virtualization.Client
  Problem Signature 05: 6.1.0.0
  Problem Signature 06: 4ce7c9e3
  Problem Signature 07: 342
  Problem Signature 08: 1f
  Problem Signature 09: System.OverflowException
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.274.10
  Locale ID:    1033

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