Right click on desktop does not bring up display properties

J

Jakanapes

On a clean install of windows XP Pro upgrade (Win98SE put on and then
immediately upgraded to XP Pro), when I right click on a clear spot on
the desktop the hourglass appears for a few about a minute and then the
desktop disappears and is redrawn. The OS complains again about the
firewall being down. Clicking on display in the Control Panel works
fine, though...

any suggestions?
 
T

The Cuddly Curmudgeon

Jakanapes said:
Clicking on display in the Control Panel works
fine, though...

any suggestions?
Click to expand...

Yeah, click on Display in the Control Panel from now on.
 
J

Jack Handey

you know you don't actually have to have a previous OS installed to upgrade
you just have to have the cd.
 
R

Ramesh, MS-MVP

Hi Jakanapes,

The right-click problem that you're experiencing is usually caused by
corrupt/incompatible shell extension installed. To identify and fix the
problem, visit the following page, and scroll-down to section "Problems when
you right-click an empty area in the Desktop?"

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

Note that there will be a context-menu entry named "New". "New" is the only
handler added by Windows. Rest everything you see in that registry location
(mentioned in the URL above) are added by third-party party software, such
as your Graphics card etc.
 

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