WIN Explorer problem

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At home, using WIN XP Pro SP2, any time I right click on MOST of the icons on
my Desktop (to check Properties, for example) everything pretty much stops in
place. It MAY eventually show the appropriate Menu, but that menu cannot
actually be clicked on. SystemIdleProcess will be at 97% or so, and basically
you have to hit the hardware Reset button to recover. I REALLY don't want to
have to re-install everything. Help!!!
 
Ed said:
At home, using WIN XP Pro SP2, any time I right click on MOST of the
icons on my Desktop (to check Properties, for example) everything
pretty much stops in place. It MAY eventually show the appropriate
Menu, but that menu cannot actually be clicked on. SystemIdleProcess
will be at 97% or so, and basically you have to hit the hardware Reset
button to recover. I REALLY don't want to have to re-install
everything. Help!!!
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This is usually caused by third-party programs that put entries into the
right-click context menu. Manage this with the free ShellExView
program. Here is a link to the program as well as various other links
to help you troubleshoot:

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
 
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