Internet Explorer Right mouse menu problem!! Someone help me!!?

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I have recently noticed problem on my PC. When i connect to the
internet and download images, after about 20 downloads the right mouse
menu no longer works.
Generally i right click on an image and open it within a different
window and then right click and save to file. I have have 4 or 5
windows opening seperate images at the same time and before it was
never an issue. I also remember having this problem on my 98 machine.

The only way to deal with this presently is disconnecting and
rebooting the PC. Its a pain. Anyone have any ideas?, is it a memory
problem?
I have run the latest version of AVG softeware and Adaware but have
found nothing.
I have windows xp home edition and i'm runnning version ie6.0

Please help. I am going mad trying things

Rivets
 
Hi,
Just a guess, but try clearing the cache and setting it's size to about
50-60 MB.
IE> Tools> Internet Options> General> Delete files (and delete offline
content.)

Hope this helps,
Don
 
Thanks for the advice my friend. However, i genrally clear my cache,
history...etc once a week. I had tried that but to no avail.
Its size is also set to 150mb.

Any other ideas ppl?

Rivets
 
When i connect to the internet and download images, after about 20
downloads the right mouse menu no longer works.
Click to expand...
I have windows xp home edition and i'm runnning version ie6.0
Click to expand...

What kind of files are you downloading?

<title>KB822430 - Windows Stops Responding When You Click a Large AVI File in Windows Explorer</title>

(MSKB Boolean search for
CPU AND kbwinxppresp2fix
)


What version of user32.dll do you have?

<title>KB816769 - Internet Explorer Hangs When Accessing Files</title>

(MSKB Boolean search for
hangs AND kbwinxppresp2fix
)


How much free space do you have and has it been defrag'd?
XP seems to have a problem with low disk space or very fragmented
disk space and you may see explorer.exe looping. Another symptom
of this condition is display problems, starting with not getting the contents
of the Systray rendered and getting progressively worse. When these
things happen to me and I'm not ready to reboot or defrag what I often
do is kill explorer.exe and use Task Manager instead.


There might also be a "memory leak" in one of the tasks you are running.
You could use Task Manager or PerfMon to track related statistics
to see if that could be the case.

<title>KB834223 - FIX: The RpcServerRegisterAuthInfo function causes a
memory leak in the Svchost.exe process that hosts the Remote Procedure
Call Server Service</title>

(MSKB Boolean search for
leak AND kbwinxppresp2fix
)


<title>KB310419 - Computer Speed and Performance May Decrease</title>

(MSKB Boolean search for
CPU AND slow AND kbwinxpsearch
)


You may get better suggestions or other opinions in a newsgroup
which specializes in XP.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
 
ok, i done a degrag on the C drive but the problem remained.
I have kept an eye on the processes running and have not noticed
anything odd.
At one point i had 2 IEXPLORE.exe processes running but they cleared.

Your adive may well help if I understood any of it!! haahaaa. Sorry,
not quite that technically minded. I got a bit lost then.

One thing i did try was saving the images to a new empty folder.
Having done this the right mouse button is working with no errors. It
has been fine over the weekend so fingers crossed, that may be a
solution. Not sure why this would be an issue. The existing folder had
over 1000 images using about 200mb. Those damn hi-res wallpapers!!

Regards
Rivs
 
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