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I posted a message a few weeks ago saying that since I installed SP2, one of
my machines is now taking 15-20 seconds to display the right-click menu in
Explorer. The standard suggestion was to look for and disable third-party
context menu handlers. Fair enough, that would've been my first guess as
well. However this didn't help; I couldn't find anything that made the
problem go away.
Now I just noticed that this doesn't happen strictly with the right-click
menu--for example, if I highlight a file, then select Edit|Copy through the
window menu (instead of right-clicking a file and then selecting Copy, which
I came to avoid because of the delay) I'm getting the same thing. The Edit
submenu appears immediately, but it still takes 15-20 seconds for the
operation to start when I select Copy (or Delete, or File|New|Folder). I'm
thinking this does *not* necessarily have to do with context menu handlers.
I'm not sure whether this is relevant, but the problem is intermittent. If
I have Explorer running for a few minutes, odds are pretty good that I'll
get the delay. However, once the popup menu appears, I can reselect it
immediately as often as I want without any pause. However, if I then switch
to some other app for a few minutes, when I get back to Explorer I'll get
the delay again. You'd think it has to do with caching and the system is
busy re-reading stuff from the registry (or cached in the pagefile), but the
machine has a gig of RAM and I'm not loading anything between task switches
that should cause massive file swapping--just typing text in an editor for a
while and then switching back to Explorer. Plus, there's no disk activity,
and CPU usage remains at 0. Explorer is simply not responding during that
delay.
Any suggestion before I give up and just reformat/reinstall? I'd rather not
go through such a drastic and silly action, but it's been almost three weeks
now and it's driving me crazy...
I posted a message a few weeks ago saying that since I installed SP2, one of
my machines is now taking 15-20 seconds to display the right-click menu in
Explorer. The standard suggestion was to look for and disable third-party
context menu handlers. Fair enough, that would've been my first guess as
well. However this didn't help; I couldn't find anything that made the
problem go away.
Now I just noticed that this doesn't happen strictly with the right-click
menu--for example, if I highlight a file, then select Edit|Copy through the
window menu (instead of right-clicking a file and then selecting Copy, which
I came to avoid because of the delay) I'm getting the same thing. The Edit
submenu appears immediately, but it still takes 15-20 seconds for the
operation to start when I select Copy (or Delete, or File|New|Folder). I'm
thinking this does *not* necessarily have to do with context menu handlers.
I'm not sure whether this is relevant, but the problem is intermittent. If
I have Explorer running for a few minutes, odds are pretty good that I'll
get the delay. However, once the popup menu appears, I can reselect it
immediately as often as I want without any pause. However, if I then switch
to some other app for a few minutes, when I get back to Explorer I'll get
the delay again. You'd think it has to do with caching and the system is
busy re-reading stuff from the registry (or cached in the pagefile), but the
machine has a gig of RAM and I'm not loading anything between task switches
that should cause massive file swapping--just typing text in an editor for a
while and then switching back to Explorer. Plus, there's no disk activity,
and CPU usage remains at 0. Explorer is simply not responding during that
delay.
Any suggestion before I give up and just reformat/reinstall? I'd rather not
go through such a drastic and silly action, but it's been almost three weeks
now and it's driving me crazy...
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