Slow when right clicking

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Many third-party applications add extra options to the context (right-click)
menu.
And some of them do not perform very well. Not sure if that’s your case ...

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

Right click causes and error and crashes Explorer.exe after installing Windows XP SP2?:
http://www.winxptutor.com/sp2/divxcrash.htm
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Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


"Smokey's Helper" <Smokey's Helper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:02F1C4CC-AE07-4008-8987-F17233AF1224@microsoft.com...
I just got a Compaq Presario 2.53 Celeron, 248 Meg RAM, 40 GB hard drive.
When i right click within a folder, it takes from 5-7 seconds for the menu to
pop up. I also noticed that according to the CPU perfomance in the task
manager that the CPU usage jumps to 100% right as the menu opens and stays at
100% until I close out the menu. Repeating this does not speed up the
process. Do I need more memory and why does the processor work so hard ?