Right Click Problem

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guys i am having strange problem. When i try to right click on folder it responds right away, but when i right click on any file i don't get any response.

I found out when i unplug my network cable then everything runs fine. when i right click and look at my process i don't see any process taking up the memory. Can someone please help me on this?

Thanks
 
Are you sure it doesn't appear at all when you right click on a file? Try leaving it for a minute without doing anything after right clicking on one and see if it appears, as that would narrow down the problem as sometimes it can take quite some time. :)
 
you are right Ian, it appears but takes forever. we are talking about more than a minutes. I thought my norton antivirus was acting up. I uninstall antivirus and still no success. It is just weired that once you unplug network cable then it works normal.
 
It sounds like something on the menu needs network access each time - have you got any non-default options on the menu when you right click?
 
I'm not aware of a method without a full re-install. Perhaps the "repair" option on CrapCleaner will do the trick?
 
Ian Here is what I found.

I ran “netstat –a 5” on command line (where –a gives me all connection and 5 runs that command every 5 second). First I ran that without right clicking and then I right clicked. I did find the difference. When I right clicked I saw one more entry that has wrong ip add followed by netbios (i don’t have anything with that ip address). Plus after netbios it didn’t show connection as “established” but showed “SYN_SENT”. This make sense, connection is not established because right click is not working.

I didn’t know how to fix the problem, except I went to network connection and under tcp\ip properties\advance\WINS I chose the option “NETBIOS over tcp ip” and it worked.
I am not comfortable to select that option because I don’t know what does that mean. I will leave it that way till I find the other solution to this problem.

If you know what “netbios over tcp/ip means”, I would appreciate the info.

Thanks
 
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