explorer stops responding on right mouse click

[Luke_A_P]

I am running Windows 2000 SP4.
(ABIT NF7-S motherboard, AMD proc, 1GB ram, 2 harddrives,
etc)

A problem appeared this morning during use (n.b. not after
a restart). Whenever I right click on an item (drive, or
folder, or file) in explorer the explorer window stops
responding. It freezes before the right click menu
appears. When the mouse is moved over the window the
working in the background hourglass and pointer appears.
Outside the frozen window everything seems to work
normaly, other explorer windows continue to function
(untill I right click in them).

After restarting and running check disk no errors were
found and the same behaviour continues. This is not an
occasional fault, it is happening everytime I right click
on an item in explorer.

any suggestions?

thanks in advance,

Luke

 

[Andrew Morton]

Open a command prompt and enter

cd \
cacls .

Does it list SYSTEM as having full control, indicated by the letter F ?

A) It does not: you can add full control for the system account over the
entire disk with

cacls . /T /E /G SYSTEM:F

You could use C:\ instead of the dot.

B) It does: have you installed any software which would add itself to a
context menu in Explorer?

Andrew