Right-click / Shortcut / Menu / Context-menu lead to network traffic

[Dave Nagle]

Hi there,

I have a weird problem on my Windows XP box.

In Windows Explorer, when I either :
- double-click on a document
- right-click on it
- press the context-menu key
- press Ctrl-C or Ctrl-X
- select menu Edit/Copy or Edit/Cut
- etc.
....
the cursor changes into the hourglass, then there is some trafic on the
network interface, and finally (after sometimes several dozens of seconds)
the requested action occurs.

I have used a packet sniffer to monitor the network.The traffic seems to be
NetBIOS-related: 5 packets sent, 0 packet received. UDP:135 requests towards
default gateway, then broadcast on the whole subnet, then a connection
(attempt?) using TCP:139 to one of the machines of the subnet.

I performed a full scan of the machine with an up-to-date virus scanner.
Ditto with a spyware scanner. Nothing found.

I looked at the ShellExts sections in the registry but did not find anything
interesting. Tried to remove the keys, but got no result. Maybe did I forget
to look somewhere, however.

Any idea?

 

[Kelly]

Hi Dave,

Many issue for that behavior: Updates (817287 and/or 821557), Hotbar and/or
Xupiter.....

Suggestion:

Run the edit on line 157: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Other than the above run all of these:

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Spybot
http://tinyurl.com/btf8

CWShredder (Line 313)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Hijack This
http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html

Free Online Virus Scan
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

Good luck!

 

[Dave Nagle]

Many issue for that behavior: Updates (817287 and/or 821557), Hotbar
and/or

Xupiter.....

No Hotbar, nor Xupiter, nor 817287.

I've got 821557, but installed for a long while, and the problem occured
quite later, as far as I remember. Moreover, I'd better not uninstall this
patch, since there are so many dependencies that I would then have to
reinstall almost half of the box.

I tried the other suggestions, but it didn't lead to anything better.

I am kind of lost. And convinced that the problem comes from a tiny simple
thing, the question being: which one?

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Dave,

Could be due to this? http://www.nexusportal.net/showthread.php?threadid=5566
If not, see if this happens to a particular file extension [file type] and check what are the context menu items it loads. Does this happen when you disconnect the system from network? or disabling the NIC?

Another option is to use R'mon and capture the results.

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
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Many issue for that behavior: Updates (817287 and/or 821557), Hotbar and/or
Xupiter.....

No Hotbar, nor Xupiter, nor 817287.

I've got 821557, but installed for a long while, and the problem occured
quite later, as far as I remember. Moreover, I'd better not uninstall this
patch, since there are so many dependencies that I would then have to
reinstall almost half of the box.

I tried the other suggestions, but it didn't lead to anything better.

I am kind of lost. And convinced that the problem comes from a tiny simple
thing, the question being: which one?