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Problem with right-click in W. Explorer

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by maish

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I have had this problem in both in Windows 2000 and WinXP. After a while (month or two) after running my computer normally without a problem, suddenly my computer takes a long time to react. When you right click an item in Windows Explorer it takes about 10-15 secs to pop up the menu. The same thing happens when you press the delete key for deleting files - 10-15 secs.
I am currently using WINXP Pro. on a Compaq P800 with 256MB Ram.
I have not added any programs or hardware lately. I am connected to a Win2000 AD network.

Does anyone have any ideas??

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by dklippert

Here are four suggestions. One of them may work in your situation.

McAfee VirusScan has been noted to cause this problem. Their instructions are as follows:

Open Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWARE
NETWORK ASSOCIATES
TVD
SHARED COMPONENTS
ON ACCESS SCANNER
McSHIELD
CONFIGURATION

Double-click on the ScannerThreadTimeout and change the value to eight f 's(ffffffff)

Close and restart VShield.
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Make sure you have the latest anti-virus version.
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Sometimes caused by having a large font collections.
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You may also try disabling fade effects under display properties.

by maish

Sorry this was not helpful. I am not running Mcafee Shield on my computer. Rather Norton Antivirus 7.5 Corp edidition from the Lan. I only have 218 Fonts on the system.

by silentmisery

Hello. First off, try removing/cleaning all temporary internet files and history cache. Then I would recommend if you have a second PHYSICAL hard drive in the system, move your virtual memory swap file to this drive and make it 1.5 times the size ofyour physical ram. After this is done, reboot - defrag your hard drive. See if this helps speed things up a bit.

by lizzy

Just a suggestion as I had a similar problem when I first upgraded to Internet Explorer 6.0 Beta--Windows Explorer started doing all sorts of things like not being able to right click, losing the +\- signs next to folders, etc. Try upgrading to the latest version of IE and applying the critical update patches from Microsoft. Hope this does it for you. Please post a comment when you figure this out and let us know what finally worked for you! Thanks.

by maish

I am already using the latest version of Internet explorer. I will let you all know when I find an answer

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