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Guest
Hi
I recently upgraded from W98 SE to XP Pro SP2. Things seem to work, other
than a nagging little problem which only occured within My Computer, and only
when I would right click on a drive icon. Right clicks anywhere else worked
just fine.
The problem I was seeing was a time delay (5-6 seconds), and then the right
click (context) menu would appear briefly, then disappear immediately,
probally 9 out of 10 times. It didn't matter what drive, it occured on all of
them. I tryed playing with the mouse in Control Panel, upgrading to
Intellipoint 5.2 - but couldn't get around it.
I've been haunting these forums for the last couple of days, trying
differant search words, to come up w/ the solution. I found it tonight.
One of my drives is an Iomega SCSI Zip 250. I had installed the Iomegaware
4.0.2 after installing XP. This was the culprit. After un-installing it,
right click on any drive now works 4 out of 5 times or better (+/-) .... it
still occurs once in a while, but not like it was. The Iomega code had a hook
to all of the drives, even the floppy.
I no longer have Iomega's fancy icon, nor their fancy titles in the context
menu, but what is there by default is all I need (eject, format, etc). Sadly,
the time delay still exists, but having used ShelExView, I can see why....
Oddly enough, one of the files which was removed w/ the Iomegaware was called
"Ioready.dll" - maybe Iomega wasn't ready...
So I want to say "thanks" to the folks who posted answers here to others who
posted about a right click issue, and the links to the various tips pages.
Jim L
I recently upgraded from W98 SE to XP Pro SP2. Things seem to work, other
than a nagging little problem which only occured within My Computer, and only
when I would right click on a drive icon. Right clicks anywhere else worked
just fine.
The problem I was seeing was a time delay (5-6 seconds), and then the right
click (context) menu would appear briefly, then disappear immediately,
probally 9 out of 10 times. It didn't matter what drive, it occured on all of
them. I tryed playing with the mouse in Control Panel, upgrading to
Intellipoint 5.2 - but couldn't get around it.
I've been haunting these forums for the last couple of days, trying
differant search words, to come up w/ the solution. I found it tonight.
One of my drives is an Iomega SCSI Zip 250. I had installed the Iomegaware
4.0.2 after installing XP. This was the culprit. After un-installing it,
right click on any drive now works 4 out of 5 times or better (+/-) .... it
still occurs once in a while, but not like it was. The Iomega code had a hook
to all of the drives, even the floppy.
I no longer have Iomega's fancy icon, nor their fancy titles in the context
menu, but what is there by default is all I need (eject, format, etc). Sadly,
the time delay still exists, but having used ShelExView, I can see why....
Oddly enough, one of the files which was removed w/ the Iomegaware was called
"Ioready.dll" - maybe Iomega wasn't ready...
So I want to say "thanks" to the folks who posted answers here to others who
posted about a right click issue, and the links to the various tips pages.
Jim L