Desktop right click gone

[Peter Ballantyne]

Windows XP SP2 all up to date, Celeron 1.6 Ghz, 512 Mbt RAM. Using McAfee
antivirus and firewall with daily update checks, and daily runs with Adaware
and Spybot S & D, also update checked daily. On a broadband router for
Internet. The other day I went to right click my desktop to access the
display settings menu and nothing happened. As well I discovered when I
double left click the desktop the start menu pops up. Everything else is
completely normal. I can access the display settings from the cion in
control panel completely normally. No idea what triggered this, and I can
live with it OK, but I hate it when somethng changes and I don't know why.
Can anyone suggest anything please? TIA.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Peter,

Might be the mouse driver, but I would first go to folder options (Control
Panel) and on the general tab click the button to restore defaults.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Wesley Vogel]

[[When you right-click a file/folder, there may be a huge delay before
Windows displays the context menu ]]

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

Also see...

Right-click is extremely slow only when Network is enabled
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Peter Ballantyne]

Thank you for the suggestions, all of which I have tried without success.
Funny thing is that right click works just fine everywhere but the desktop.
I run Ashampoo Optimiser and TweakUI and checked them for any settings that
night have :locked" the desktop or something like that, but no dice there
either. As I said I can live with it, but it irritates me when something
changes and I don't know why. With thanks to those who took the time to
offer suggestions I am still open to any more. TIA.
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Peter in New Zealand.
Pull the plug out to reply.

[[When you right-click a file/folder, there may be a huge delay before
Windows displays the context menu ]]

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

Also see...

Right-click is extremely slow only when Network is enabled
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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