Assistance in right clicking

[kev13dd]

Hi! It doesn't appear the problem is going away by itself, and virus scanning, spyware scans, and defragmenting didn't help, so I guess I'll turn to the help of NvNews forum gurus since I can't think of any computer appropriate website I could get assistance at

My right clicking takes FOREVER. After I right click on something (icons mainly, like desktop shortcuts, MP3s, movies, pictures <--- the worst) the little hour glass appears and sits there for about 10-20 seconds before the right click menu appears. It then freezes up that screen. Like if I right click on something on the desktop, the entire desktop freezes. I can still click the start menu and open up stuff fast as a button, but the desktop remains frozen. If I right click when browsing folders, the folder window freezes, but everything else works perfect. Unless I try to right click on something else

It also takes a long time when I double click for the things to open. Games are fine, as are stuff like Opera, but music files and picture files take as long as if I had right clicked them. It's odd with pictures cause when I click the arrow in Windows Picture Viewer the other pictures come up super fast. But if I click them in the folder, they still open really slow

It makes no sense why any of this is happening. CPU usage remains practically 0 as long as I'm not doing anything else. My Page File and memory don't clog, they remain low still too...

Any help? At all? Suggestions besides reformatting and losing over a year and a halfs worth of crap? Any ideas where I could find help?

K

[TierMann]

I'm not sure of your system specs, or version of windows or virus scan but it sounds like just a software issue somewhere. Maybe your on-access virus scanner is taking a while or something added to your shell is acting up. (like winzip, Nv display driver, anything that added options to your right-click menu).

[CaptNKILL]

Thats really really odd...

Does it do it in safe mode?

You can always do a repair installation of Windows XP too. Just pop in the CD, boot off of it, skip the repair console crap, accept the license agreement then after that they will give you the choice to repair your existing windows installation... hit R and itl reinstall without effecting any of your data. Basically it just replaces important system files... you'll still have all your drivers and personal settings.

Its worth a shot.

OH... I just thought of something else too. Check your right click menu for things that other programs have added, like WinZip, WinRAR etc. And check your "send to..." options. Maybe something in the menu itself is screwed up and causing it to take too long to show up.

[Rakeesh]

It sounds to me like you have at one point or another (most likely recently) installed some kind of software that added a UI extension to explorer that specifically adjusts the way the right click menus work.

It is probable that the content of this menu item looks for the status of a peice of hardware (or even a virtual software device) that is now or was at one time connected/installed to your computer. It uses this status to possibly generate meta text in the right click menu, or is probably checked by windows prior to running your programs. If this hardware responds slowly, or even not at all, that would explain the long delay or freezing of your system when you bring up a right click menu or run certain programs.

This is all just a guess, but I would look in that direction first. Here's something that may help: try unplugging your network cable, and see if it speeds up while it is unplugged.

[jAkUp]

It sounds to me like you have at one point or another (most likely recently) installed some kind of software that added a UI extension to explorer that specifically adjusts the way the right click menus work.

It is probable that the content of this menu item looks for the status of a peice of hardware (or even a virtual software device) that is now or was at one time connected/installed to your computer. It uses this status to possibly generate meta text in the right click menu, or is probably checked by windows prior to running your programs. If this hardware responds slowly, or even not at all, that would explain the long delay or freezing of your system when you bring up a right click menu or run certain programs.

This is all just a guess, but I would look in that direction first. Here's something that may help: try unplugging your network cable, and see if it speeds up while it is unplugged.

yup. I was gonna say the same, some sort of software that adds menus to the right click bar, (like winrar) Go through ADD/Remove programs

[kev13dd]

yup. I was gonna say the same, some sort of software that adds menus to the right click bar, (like winrar) Go through ADD/Remove programs

I removed every program that I've added in the past week (problem only started 2 or 3 days ago) and still I got issues. I want to say "I just bought HL2 and installed Steam" and blame that, but I know that's not it

I checked the right click menu, nothing was added, nothing was missing, it was normal

I took the half assed solution. Kinda like to get a chicken leg you kill the whole chicken

I went into the registry, looked around, found what I wanted, and clicked delete. No more "open with" menu when I right click. And right click is 10x faster than it ever was before. Granted I can't change how things open right away, but if I go into properties I can change it. And when I change it that way, it takes a nice 3-5 seconds for that menu to come up, but that's a delay I can live with. In the meantime, no more EVER accepting ANY files my girlfriend sends me. It all started with her stupid pictures from her vacation. They were the first ones to ever be slow on right click... and then it spread...

K

[jAkUp]

It all started with her stupid pictures from her vacation.

lol...
vacationpicture.jpg.exe

:afro:

[SH64]

Forward the pics to me & i'll check if they were the source of the problem :p

[kev13dd]

Forward the pics to me & i'll check if they were the source of the problem :p

Ha ha I'm not that lucky of a boyfriend

Anywho, word to the wise: if you're going to do what I did, make sure to not delete registry keys randomly until you find the one you are looking for. Cause some... well... the keys are there for a reason... well, were there

K