Desktop right-click delay -- help requested

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John

Whenever I right click on a blank area of the Windows Desktop, there is a
delay indicated by the hour glass cursor before the context menu appears.
This delay is constantly present regardless of whatever programs or tasks
are running. Various things tried include booting with no startup tasks
whatsoever, booting into safe mode, new video display driver, running with
plain Windows SP1 with and without critical updates, and system recovery.
The computer is brand new and has this problem out of the box and in a long
discussion with the manufacturer they were unable to find a solution.

Does anyone know what's causing this problem. I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks, John
 
Right-click on MY COMPUTER and select:
Properties > Advanced > Performance Settings
and uncheck "Show Shadows under Menus"
and click APPLY.

HOW TO: Set Performance Options in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308417


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| Whenever I right click on a blank area of the Windows Desktop, there is a
| delay indicated by the hour glass cursor before the context menu appears.
| This delay is constantly present regardless of whatever programs or tasks
| are running. Various things tried include booting with no startup tasks
| whatsoever, booting into safe mode, new video display driver, running with
| plain Windows SP1 with and without critical updates, and system recovery.
| The computer is brand new and has this problem out of the box and in a long
| discussion with the manufacturer they were unable to find a solution.
|
| Does anyone know what's causing this problem. I'd appreciate any help.
|
| Thanks, John
 
You are not specific about the approximate time it takes
during this delay, ALL systems regardless of how powerful
and/or new are take certain time to access an instruction.
The delay to see a right click menu appear on the desktop
is a bit more when windows has just started, this is a
normal behavior that has to do with windows XP pre-
fetching features.
The menu takes some time ALWAYS to appear, to wait for
its submenu New, it always takes a little more.
If what you want is an instantaneous menu, you're
dreaming!
Quantum computing still some years (10!) ahead!!!
 
Alex, thanks for your reply.

The time it takes is about 1 or 2 seconds, not an eternity, granted, but
this is on a 2.8 GHz machine "out of the box." My old 1.0 GHz machine with
a very heavy load of running applications was instant in this respect and my
brother's computer (1.6 GHz ?) is also like lightning in this same function.
In a long help session with the manufacturer's level 2 support agent he
concluded that this delay on my machine is absolutely not right and that
there should be no hourglass whatsoever and that it was being caused by
either was some incompatibility with the software or a hardware issue.
 
Carey,

That did not fix it but thanks for your help. I previously failed to
mention that all the System Performance options (Visual Effects and
Advanced) were also tried.

Thanks again.
John
 
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