Windows Explorer: slow double-click, slow right-click

[Samuel B. Quiring]

My PC became slow a few weeks ago at a few operations: double-click a file
(memo.doc) to bring it up in it's default program (Word) and right-click a
file (foo.txt) to bring up the context menu.

Windows Explorer comes up at a normal speed. I can browse into folders at
normal performance. If I perform one of the above operations and it will
take 22-27 seconds from the mouse clicks till anything happens. Then, for
about 1 minute, if I perform either operation it behaves as normal -- very
quick.

I suspect that I have defined a resource with a network address that is not
available. Windows tries to get this resource and fails (22 seconds) then
remembers for a while that it failed. After a minute Windows forgets and
tries again.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Sam

 

[Wesley Vogel]

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

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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