Computer freezes when I right-click on icons

[Guest]

I have a Compaq laptop with Windows XP Home edition on it. My problem is that
whenever I right-click on anything, my computer freezes. If I right-click on
any icon on the desktop, it freezes and I have to restart in order to do
anything. If I right-click on any file or folder in a hard drive, My
documents etc, it freezes and I have to press Ctrl + Alt + Delete and then
close it from there. The only place that I can right-click without the
computer freezing is on the system tray.

Can anyone help me here? I can't do many things quickly and efficiently
because my computer keeps on freezing.

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Ruby,

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/slowrightclick.htm

If this happened after installing SP2, see:

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

--
Ramesh, MS-MVP XP Shell/UI
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


I have a Compaq laptop with Windows XP Home edition on it. My problem is
that
whenever I right-click on anything, my computer freezes. If I right-click on
any icon on the desktop, it freezes and I have to restart in order to do
anything. If I right-click on any file or folder in a hard drive, My
documents etc, it freezes and I have to press Ctrl + Alt + Delete and then
close it from there. The only place that I can right-click without the
computer freezing is on the system tray.

Can anyone help me here? I can't do many things quickly and efficiently
because my computer keeps on freezing.

 

[Darkknight]

do you have DIVX install on the right click menus? this is a common
problem. uninstall Divx to fix,