Slow send to menu

[bigbadwolf]

My send to menu is extremely slow and can take up to 30secs to load, while at the same time managing to slow down the rest of my system to a great extent.
I have no idea what could have caused this problem, and everything else runs very smoothly.

I have only these items on send to menu -

compressed folder
desktop
mail recipient
my documents
floppy A
local disk C
dvd-drive D
local disk E

I cant see how any of these could cause a problem, I do have an image drive by Alcohol 120%, labeled G, but it has been there a long time and this problem is only recent.

If anybody has an idea what could have caused this and how to fix it, I would appreciate it.

 

[ScottyHutch]

Sorry I don't have an exact answer for you, but I know I've seen this porblem on systems with alot of bloatware running. have you tried some general system clean up such as:

All Programs->Accessories->system Tools->Disk Clean up

Setting the performance option for best performance, Control Panel->System Properties->Advanced Tab

I would also run a program called AdAware (I think) it scans your drive and removes AdWare.

Also, how much RAM do you have installed?

 

[stiffy]

I was able to remedy this by removing a network destination folder - anything remote will cause this problem.

 

[Nigel Brooks]

yes, a network reference causes this. Just create a 'Network' folder in the SendTo folder and put all remote places in there. Then when you do a Right-Click|Send To, you only see the top level items, plus a pop-up for the Network stuff (if you click on it, then it is slow at this point only).

Nigel