Window Freeze

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Whenever I right click on the desktop or try to drag an item to or from the
desktop, my computer freezes up. I have all necessary updates and have virus
scanned the computer multiple times and still have problems. Anyone have a
suggestion as to how to fix this?

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Thank you. It was the shell from my virus program that was causing the problem.

"Malke" wrote:

> John H. wrote:
>
> > Whenever I right click on the desktop or try to drag an item to or
> > from the desktop, my computer freezes up. I have all necessary updates
> > and have virus scanned the computer multiple times and still have
> > problems. Anyone have a suggestion as to how to fix this?
>
> Right-click problems are usually caused by third-party software that has
> put entries into the context menu. The free ShellExView utility is
> great for troubleshooting this. Disable all non-Microsoft entries for
> the context menu. Get ShellExView here:
> http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
>
> And here are some other links about the problem to help you:
>
> Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers -
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.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
>
> Malke
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