Can't right click on desktop

[Guest]

When I rt-click on an icon on my desktop, I get the normal drop down menu.
When I rt-click on an open area on my desktop (for looking at display
properties, for instance) I get no menu, I just get an hour glass--forever.
FYI--when I go into Control Panel/Display, I have no problem.
I have to end task to kill the hour glass.

Any ideas ?

 

[Haggis]

When I rt-click on an icon on my desktop, I get the normal drop down menu.
When I rt-click on an open area on my desktop (for looking at display
properties, for instance) I get no menu, I just get an hour
glass--forever.
FYI--when I go into Control Panel/Display, I have no problem.
I have to end task to kill the hour glass.

Any ideas ?

try this...

Start > Run gpedit.msc

User Configuration > Adminstrative Template > Window Components > Windows
Explorer
In the right hand window pane see if
Disable Window Explorers default context menu is enabled.
If it is double click on it and then click on "Not Configured"

hth

 

[Unk]

When I rt-click on an icon on my desktop, I get the normal drop down menu.
When I rt-click on an open area on my desktop (for looking at display
properties, for instance) I get no menu, I just get an hour glass--forever.
FYI--when I go into Control Panel/Display, I have no problem.
I have to end task to kill the hour glass.

Any ideas ?

Usually caused by an error in one of the Right-click context handlers.

ShellExView v1.13 - Shell Extensions Manager
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

ContextEdit - Right-Click Context Handler Editor
Read about it: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1556349,00.asp
Download: ftp://ftp.externet.hu/pub/mirror/sac/utilfile/cnxtedit.zip
Mirror: http://wittswallpapers.com/Oldies/cnxtedit.zip
Mirror: http://www.infocellar.com/winxp/files/contextedit.zip

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

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

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


When I rt-click on an icon on my desktop, I get the normal drop down menu.
When I rt-click on an open area on my desktop (for looking at display
properties, for instance) I get no menu, I just get an hour glass--forever.
FYI--when I go into Control Panel/Display, I have no problem.
I have to end task to kill the hour glass.

Any ideas ?