What may be the cause and remedy that the menu that appears on the right mouse button push against any file, except exe files, in Windows Explorer showing hourglass for very long time
as it seems to me? The same reaction on the double click. I have windows xp sp2.
I’ve used ShellExView to check role of the context menu handlers. As far as I have only 6 non-Microsoft handlers I tried to disable them first one by one and then disabled them all, restarted computer…and nothing changed in any case. I have, for example, many pdf and doc files and they show me the hourglass for 10-20 sec. It does not depend on size of file.
The situation is the same when tried from the Safe Mode.
I saw in Task Manager, Performance tab that next moment I tried to open file CPU was running to zero and then its performance slowly rose to some 30-50 percents.
Running ChkDsk to check c: drive for errors did not help as well as Defragmentation.
Some unsigned drivers were found but all of them were preinstalled by Dell.
I used a restore point of month ago and in vain.
From the Process List in Task Manager I looked for a Process that is using the bulk of the CPU cycles. That was System Idle Process (99). When, for example, I try to open Word file, Winword starts working and using some CPU resource (30-50) when hourglass vanishes.
When I use Total Commander instead of WE there is the same result on the right mouse button push and practically no problem with double click.
