Right click at Win XP caused system stuck

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Joris Navius

Hi all

I have installed Win XP with some apps such as Symantec
Anti Virus and PC Anywhere. I am not quite sure the
condition before and after installing those apps. But
right now, I encounter problem in which whenever I do
right click at any icons at desktop/quick launch/menu or
right click at any files or folders, the system seems
stuck, with wait/busy icon and i have to wait around 1
minutes before it can appear the right click menu.
please advise.
i thought at first maybe because of the DHCP service and i
have disabled some of the services.
 
Joris said:
I have installed Win XP with some apps such as Symantec
Anti Virus and PC Anywhere. I am not quite sure the
condition before and after installing those apps. But
right now, I encounter problem in which whenever I do
right click at any icons at desktop/quick launch/menu or
right click at any files or folders, the system seems
stuck, with wait/busy icon and i have to wait around 1
minutes before it can appear the right click menu.
please advise.
i thought at first maybe because of the DHCP service and i
have disabled some of the services.
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This is almost always caused by delay in a right-click extension that
one of your applications has installed. For example, some context menu
item is looking up something or running a little program and it is
waiting for information to finish the context menu display.

Of course, you are going to ask "which one is it?" and the answer is
"how could I know?"
 
Perhaps it's Symantec Anti-virus. I have a friend, who
cannot seem to learn how to forward E-mail messages
without that everlasting cover sheet. She's an AOL
subscriber using their mail system. I'm totally in the
dark; so I can't help her learn to manage it. Generally
she sends more than one forwarded message at a time. I
do not open any of her attachments without first saving
them to my hard drive and scanning them with NAV. The
first scan always takes what seems like too long to
respond to the right-click, but right-click on the
remainder of the messages responds quickly. HTH
 
Sylvia said:
Perhaps it's Symantec Anti-virus. I have a friend, who
cannot seem to learn how to forward E-mail messages
without that everlasting cover sheet. She's an AOL
subscriber using their mail system. I'm totally in the
dark; so I can't help her learn to manage it. Generally
she sends more than one forwarded message at a time. I
do not open any of her attachments without first saving
them to my hard drive and scanning them with NAV. The
first scan always takes what seems like too long to
respond to the right-click, but right-click on the
remainder of the messages responds quickly. HTH
Click to expand...

That is an excellent theory. Look for an installation setting on NAV
that will avoid adding right-click context menu items, if you want to
use another way to scan attachments.
 
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