Can’t Rt Clik Desktp-hour glass stuck

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Help -I too cannot right click on my Desktop (WinXP) without the
hourglass staying on forever. Haggis solution at the Start Menu in Run
window gpedit.msc doesn’t work. I get a reply "Windows cannot find
gpedit.msc". I have to cntrol-alt-del to get to the Task Manager to
restart the computer. Everything else works fine. I can go to My
Computer and right click in folders and files to set up a shortcut,
but not right click on the Desktop without getting the perpetual
hourglass. Thanks for any new solutions.
 
OldDog said:
Help -I too cannot right click on my Desktop (WinXP) without the
hourglass staying on forever. Haggis solution at the Start Menu in Run
window gpedit.msc doesn't work. I get a reply "Windows cannot find
gpedit.msc". I have to cntrol-alt-del to get to the Task Manager to
restart the computer. Everything else works fine. I can go to My
Computer and right click in folders and files to set up a shortcut,
but not right click on the Desktop without getting the perpetual
hourglass. Thanks for any new solutions.
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Do you get the same problem if you go to Control Panel - Display?

Jay
 
OldDog said:
Help -I too cannot right click on my Desktop (WinXP) without the
hourglass staying on forever. Haggis solution at the Start Menu in Run
window gpedit.msc doesn’t work. I get a reply "Windows cannot find
gpedit.msc". I have to cntrol-alt-del to get to the Task Manager to
restart the computer. Everything else works fine. I can go to My
Computer and right click in folders and files to set up a shortcut,
but not right click on the Desktop without getting the perpetual
hourglass. Thanks for any new solutions.
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Right-click problems are most often caused by third-party programs putting
an extension into the context menu. Troubleshoot with the free ShellExView:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

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

You will not have the Group Policy Editor (gpedit) in XP Home.

Malke
 
OldDog said:
Help -I too cannot right click on my Desktop (WinXP) without the
hourglass staying on forever. Haggis solution at the Start Menu in Run
window gpedit.msc doesn’t work. I get a reply "Windows cannot find
gpedit.msc". I have to cntrol-alt-del to get to the Task Manager to
restart the computer. Everything else works fine. I can go to My
Computer and right click in folders and files to set up a shortcut,
but not right click on the Desktop without getting the perpetual
hourglass. Thanks for any new solutions.

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OldDog said:
Help -I too cannot right click on my Desktop (WinXP) without the
hourglass staying on forever. Haggis solution at the Start Menu in Run
window gpedit.msc doesn’t work. I get a reply "Windows cannot find
gpedit.msc". I have to cntrol-alt-del to get to the Task Manager to
restart the computer. Everything else works fine. I can go to My
Computer and right click in folders and files to set up a shortcut,
but not right click on the Desktop without getting the perpetual
hourglass. Thanks for any new solutions.

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My right click also does not work after sitting idle for awhile ... the problem seems to be wndproc not responding???
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what to do.
thanks,trish
 
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