slow response when creating new items through the context menus

[Hii Sing Chung]

In Windows Explorer, if I right-click and choose New on the context menus,
the Explorer goes into "not responding" for about 2 minutes. This problem is
very prevalent in Windows XP and is specific to particular computers. I am
managing 70+ computers on the network and find this very irritating. I
believe there is a way to solve this but so far I haven't come across any
solution. I think there are many other people experiencing the same problem.

Anyone has clue to resolve the problem?

 

[Malke]

In Windows Explorer, if I right-click and choose New on the context
menus, the Explorer goes into "not responding" for about 2 minutes.
This problem is very prevalent in Windows XP and is specific to
particular computers. I am managing 70+ computers on the network and
find this very irritating. I believe there is a way to solve this but
so far I haven't come across any solution. I think there are many
other people experiencing the same problem.

Anyone has clue to resolve the problem?

This is normally caused when a third-party program puts an entry into
the right-click context menu. It also can be caused by codecs. An easy
way to troubleshoot is with the free ShellExView program. Here are
links to help you troubleshoot and a link to download ShellExView:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

Right-click is extremely slow only when Network is enabled -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm

Right click causes an error and crashes Explorer.exe after installing
Windows XP SP2 - http://www.winxptutor.com/sp2/divxcrash.htm

Manage the context-menu entries for folders, drives and Namespace
objects - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/context_folders.htm

Problem caused by adding Copy To and Move To as context menu entries -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/movetocontext.htm

Malke