Drive right-click in Explorer very slow

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Nick Payne

When I right-click a drive letter in Windows Explorer, it takes about ten or
fifteen seconds for the popup menu to appear. This slowness is quite
consistent, and happens regardless of whether I choose the floppy drive, the
local hard disk, local CD-ROM, or mapped network drives. When right-clicking
a directory or file in Explorer there is virtually no delay before the popup
menu appears, nor is there any delay on a network share. In fact, if I have
both \\server\share and a drive mapped to \\server\share visible in
Explorer, I get the delay when I right-click on the mapped drive but not
when I right-click on the UNC share which points to the exact same location.

The machine is otherwise more than acceptably fast: Asus P4P800 motherboard,
2.4GHz P4, 1Gb RAM, 120Gb SATA drive, WinXP Pro SP1 with all current
patches.

Any suggestions on why this one operation should be so slow?

Nick
 
Do you have any applications installed that have embedded themselves in the
right click context menu ?
When you right click, does anything get offered which isn't part of windows?

Paul
 
There are three additions to the menu: Winzip, McAfee anti-virus, WS_FTP.
However, those same three additions also display on all right-clicks, and
it's only the right-click on a drive letter that is so slow.

Nick
 
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