Repost - Right click on a folder does not work right away

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Boris Mohar

Hello,

I get very slow response when I right click on a folder. At first I thought
that it was not responding but now I see that if I stare at the hourglass for
about 30 second I get the folder menu. Right click works fine for all other
operations. I did system restore to previous day but now it is back. I have
SP2. AVG found and deleted BackDoor.Hackarmy a in my email trash bin where I
put the suspicious attachment myself. Is there a connection?
 
Boris said:
Hello,

I get very slow response when I right click on a folder. At first I
thought that it was not responding but now I see that if I stare at
the hourglass for about 30 second I get the folder menu. Right click
works fine for all other operations. I did system restore to
previous day but now it is back. I have SP2. AVG found and deleted
BackDoor.Hackarmy a in my email trash bin where I put the suspicious
attachment myself. Is there a connection?
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Boris:

1) How often do you defrag your HD?

2) How big or complex is the file system on your PC?

Steve
 
from the said:
Hello,

I get very slow response when I right click on a folder. At first I thought
that it was not responding but now I see that if I stare at the hourglass for
about 30 second I get the folder menu. Right click works fine for all other
operations. I did system restore to previous day but now it is back. I have
SP2. AVG found and deleted BackDoor.Hackarmy a in my email trash bin where I
put the suspicious attachment myself. Is there a connection?
Click to expand...

=Any= folder, or just =some= folders? WinXP has known problems with
folders containing certain types of multi-media files, some .zip files,
etc. since it tries to open them up to various extents to tell you about
the contents. If you have any form of real-time AV installed, this
causes them to get scanned too, but the real delay if XP (windows
explorer) struggling with things like DivX files that it doesn't
actually know how to handle.
 
Boris:

1) How often do you defrag your HD?

2) How big or complex is the file system on your PC?

Steve
Click to expand...

When the problem is there it is with any folder including the desktop
folders. Note that I am not tying to open them. I am trying to Right Click
to get the menu. Pleas read my reply to Steve. Thanks for all the help.

P.S sorry about PM reply.
--
Boris Mohar




Regards,

Boris Mohar

Got Knock? - see:
Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs http://www3.sympatico.ca/borism/
 
Boris:

1) How often do you defrag your HD?

2) How big or complex is the file system on your PC?

Steve
Click to expand...
Steve

This a new machine with 200g hard drive. It has not been defraged yet since
I just installed the software. The disk is partitioned in five partitions.
Interestingly, just after I posted this I ran Adware which I run every day.
All it found and deleted were few harmless tracking cookies. The right click
on a folder started working again. I think that this is a coincidence
because this morning when I checked it was still working just after I powered
up and than little later it got slow in again when right clicking on a
folder.

I do not mean to muddy the waters but I also noticed another weird right
click behavior. When I right click on a web page I get the correct menu
immediately but when I select View Source, sometimes nothing happens, not
even the hourglass. This could be my own web page where I am not blocking
the viewing of the source or some other web page. Sometimes it succeeds in
viewing the source. When this happens the Notepad displays at the top bar:
"borism [13] - Notepad" If I repeat without closing it opens again and
this time it displays "borism [8]- Notepad"

BTW I just tried right clicking on a folder and it behaving correctly again.
View source is not working at the moment

Thanks for all your help
 
=Any= folder, or just =some= folders? WinXP has known problems with
folders containing certain types of multi-media files, some .zip files,
etc. since it tries to open them up to various extents to tell you about
the contents. If you have any form of real-time AV installed, this
causes them to get scanned too, but the real delay if XP (windows
explorer) struggling with things like DivX files that it doesn't
actually know how to handle.
Click to expand...

When the problem is there it is with any folder including the desktop
folders. Note that I am not tying to open them. I am trying to Right Click
to get the menu. Pleas read my reply to Steve. Thanks for all the help.
--
Boris Mohar



Regards,

Boris Mohar

Got Knock? - see:
Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs http://www3.sympatico.ca/borism/
 
Boris Mohar said:
Hello,

I get very slow response when I right click on a folder. At first I thought
that it was not responding but now I see that if I stare at the hourglass for
about 30 second I get the folder menu. Right click works fine for all other
operations. I did system restore to previous day but now it is back. I have
SP2. AVG found and deleted BackDoor.Hackarmy a in my email trash bin where I
put the suspicious attachment myself. Is there a connection?
Click to expand...


See if this helps: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm


Bob
 
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