"open with"

[Guest]

when i right click on say a picture or mp3 file or indeed anything at all the
option to "open with" will not work and crashes my pc, before this trouble if
i clicked on open with i had a long list of programmes to choose from but
this list is empty, any help would be greatful

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi Paul,

Right-click problem of this kind are usually caused by third-party shell
extensions. See "Method 2" in the following page to isolate the problem.

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm
(Ignore the page title)

Open With sub-menu which contains the drop-down list of programs, is missing
for all the file types?:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/openwithsub.htm

Open-with list is collapsed; No items listed in the open-with menu:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/openwithissue.htm

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


when i right click on say a picture or mp3 file or indeed anything at all
the
option to "open with" will not work and crashes my pc, before this trouble
if
i clicked on open with i had a long list of programmes to choose from but
this list is empty, any help would be greatful

 

[Guest]

hi ramesh, thanx for your help i now have right click again

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Glad that helped, Paul.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


hi ramesh, thanx for your help i now have right click again