Odd Problem with Right click on desktop Icons.

[Chuck]

I thought I'd seen just about everything that might happen, after more than
ten years of windows testing and use. This is a new one on me.

A system with Win XP1 (all updates except SP2, SP2 causes problems with some
application and printing software)

After install problem ocurred and continued after removal(uninstall) of
Kodak Easy Share 5.02
(Hate that software, always had trouble with it. It"s the only way to read
raw files from an older Kodak camera we have.)

Anyway-- The right mouse button will cause a "hang" when it is clicked on a
desktop icon, such as My Computer, or on an icon or file name within a
folder/subdirectory. Applications will run, but the PC will be slow. This
occurs with the usual user logged in (user has admin rights)
It does not occur when "the" administrator login is used.

This would appear to have something to do with the user profile or rights,
which is an area that I've not kept up with in recent times.

Any and all ideas (Restore happened to be turned off for other reasons when
this occurred)

I have nothing against hacking the registry, just would prefer to know where
to begin. Backtracking thu it can be quite time consuming. As I remember
user profile info etc. is not all in the registry anyway.

 

[Patti MacLeod]

Hi Chuck,

Have a look here (information provided courtesy of Ramesh [MVP]):
Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm



Regards,

 

[Chuck]

Narrowing things down a bit-- the problem occurs on explorer and only with
one user login.
The keystroke equiv causes the same problem.
I guess I'll start by comparing registry entries for the affected account
against another account of the same type and access level.
It's not a "slow" problem, it's a hang explorer problem.