Right click slowdown

[Neil Armstrong]

When I right click my computer slows down for about 20 seconds.
The CPU is at 100% for this time and the mouse is sluggish so that it's hard
to select e.g. New - Folder
If I ALT TAB away to another program it comes back to normal immediately.

It also doesn't do this all the time.
Right now I can right click 10 times in a row perfectly.
Later I can do it and it's the same sluggishness.
Then it will tend to do it a few times in a row.

It might do it straight after a reboot or not until 5 hours of uptime.
I might have no programs running and it's sluggish or the taskbar full and
it's quick.
There's no pattern.

Strange!

Has anyone any bright ideas?

Neil
Ireland

 

[Chris Lanier]

Temporary Decline in Performance Occurs When You Right-Click a File or
Folder in Windows Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;819101

 

[T.C.]

Try this:

Go to Control Panel/Display. Click the Appearance tab, click to REMOVE the
checkmark to the left of: Use the following transition effect for menus and
tool tips, click the OK button, then click the Apply button on the remaining
dialog box. Reboot, and see if that speeds things up. If it doesn't, you
might want to right click your Start Button, left click Properties, click to
select the Classic Start menu, then click the Apply and OK buttons. The
"Fisher Price XP/Eye Candy" menus might be colorful, but use up too much in
system resources. I'm a power user, and prefer the classic menus because
they're faster, more utilitarian, and take up less of the valuable desktop
real estate. If after doing the above, the menus are still too slow for
you: Download TweakUI for Windows XP
at:

http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWSXP/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Install and then run TweakUI. After install it will be listed on
Start/Programs/Powertoys for Windows XP/TweakUI for Windows XP. When
TweakUI is open, in the left pane click the MOUSE heading, and in the right
pane of the window you'll see a Menu Speed slider bar. Move the setting
towards FASTER, and see if that speeds things up for you.

 

[Ramesh]

Hi Neil,

When I right-click a file or folder, sometimes my CPU goes up to 100%
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=819101
http://www.petri.co.il/xp_right_click_bug.htm

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When I right click my computer slows down for about 20 seconds.
The CPU is at 100% for this time and the mouse is sluggish so that it's hard
to select e.g. New - Folder
If I ALT TAB away to another program it comes back to normal immediately.

It also doesn't do this all the time.
Right now I can right click 10 times in a row perfectly.
Later I can do it and it's the same sluggishness.
Then it will tend to do it a few times in a row.

It might do it straight after a reboot or not until 5 hours of uptime.
I might have no programs running and it's sluggish or the taskbar full and
it's quick.
There's no pattern.

Strange!

Has anyone any bright ideas?

Neil
Ireland