Right click on desktop does not bring up display properties

[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?

 

[The Cuddly Curmudgeon]

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

any suggestions?

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

 

[Jack Handey]

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

 

[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.