WinXP Home and right-clicks

[sachaburnett]

Hi,

I've read many posts in this newsgroup about third-party s/w messing up
WinXP's context menus but my problem is a little different:

When I go into My Computer and right-click any folder everything is
fine. It's only when I right-click a root drive letter (C:, D:, etc...)
that I get one of those "Windows Explorer has performed an illegal
operation" popups. Sometimes I would get a Dr. Watson message too.

When this happens all the icons disappear from my desktop momentarily
then return and everything's back to "normal".

Any idea what the problem is? I don't recall installing any new s/w
since this started happening...

Thanks in advance.

SB

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootlist/208.htm#4

Right click crashes Explorer.exe after installing Windows XP SP2?:
http://www.winxptutor.com/sp2/divxcrash.htm

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com