File/folder pop-up menu corruption?

[Derek Harvey]

Hi,
Quite suddenly, not sure exactly when this started, any attempt to
right-click on a file or folder in My Computer or file manager such as Power
Desk causes Windows Explorer to report a problem and say it needs to close.
This is XP Home SP2 (I think SP3 not on this system as not listed in
Add/remove programs list). Right-click on desktop icon works OK as also in
Outlook Express.
I have done System Restore back several days with no improvement.

It seems possible that the list of things that come up in that pop-up has
become corrupted, causing it to hang (takes a few seconds to raise the
error). I assume this list is in a Registry Key. Can someone point me to the
key please, or suggest some other solution to this irritating problem.

Thanks
Derek

 

[Elmo]

Hi,
Quite suddenly, not sure exactly when this started, any attempt to
right-click on a file or folder in My Computer or file manager such as Power
Desk causes Windows Explorer to report a problem and say it needs to close.
This is XP Home SP2 (I think SP3 not on this system as not listed in
Add/remove programs list). Right-click on desktop icon works OK as also in
Outlook Express.
I have done System Restore back several days with no improvement.

It seems possible that the list of things that come up in that pop-up has
become corrupted, causing it to hang (takes a few seconds to raise the
error). I assume this list is in a Registry Key. Can someone point me to the
key please, or suggest some other solution to this irritating problem.

Thanks
Derek

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm

 

[Derek Harvey]

Thanks Joe.
Those links seem very promising. Not had time to try them out yet.
Derek