Delay expanding Win Explorer: View > Explorer Bar

[Guest]

Hi,

I have just reinstalled Windows XP Home and all my other s/w. Now in a
"Windows Explorer" window, there is a long delay expanding the View >
Explorer Bar menu item.

Please can anyone offer some advise to fixing the problem.

Cheers!

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Simo,

Is this delay occurring only during the first time when Internet Explorer is
opened, or in all instances? Is there a third-party Explorer bar listed
there?

 

[Guest]

Hi Ramesh,

It appears to be happening the first time only. There's a Yahoo! Messenger
menu item in the Explorer Bar sub menu. During the re-install, i did install
the latest versions of s/w including YH mgr. My previous, older version may
not have had this Explorer Bar feature.

If this is the cause, I'd be happy to have it disabled if that's possible -
though not YH Messenger itself - I use that.

Cheers,
Simo

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi Simo,

Yes. See if disabling the Yahoo! Messenger's explorer bar helps. I don't
think the Manage Add-ons (XP SP2) dialog lists the Explorer bars. If that's
the case, try ToolbarCop:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/toolbarcop.htm

In ToolbarCop, click 'Scan for search bars' in the Tools menu. Now, locate
and diable the Yahoo! component. Restart Windows (as IE / Explorer caches
the Explorer bar listings, and does not read it dynamically).