A "right click" problem solved....

[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

 

[T. Waters]

Congrats, and thanks for sharing your results.

 

[t.cruise]

I had similar problems with my Iomega zip external drive slowing things down. It's old
technology. I bought a USB external hard drive and use it instead. The external hard
drive cost less than the zip, no need to buy zip disks anymore, and the external hard
drive has 200 GB of storage (and is MUCH faster than any zip drive). If you don't want to
replace the zip drive with a USB external hard drive: Unplug the zip drive (if it's
external) when you're not using it, and the problems should disappear. Then plug it back
in when you need to use it.

T.C.

 

[Kelly]

How interesting, Jim and thanks for sharing. This will help many others.
Glad you have it sorted. )

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