Right-Click triggers network activity and big delay. Why?

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Neale D. Hind

I have a small home network with an irritating problem that I hope
someone could help me resolve.

The network is a USR Wireless Access Point / Router (which is the DHCP
server) with one PC wired and another wireless. This works fine for file
sharing except ....

When I right-click on any file on the wireless machine this generates
network activity. It can take quite a while before the right-click menu
is shown. Subsequent right-clicks then become almost instantaneous.
After a few minutes working on something else, the right-click again
takes thirty seconds or so before returning the menu.

Disabling the wireless card makes all these delays disappear - but of
course so does the network.

I initially thought that the right-click delay could be linked to a
network path on the Send To menu, so I removed all the entries from
there. This did not reduce the delays though. Neither does it seem to be
linked to Anti Virus or firewall software as the problem remains with
those disabled.

The problem does not happen when right-clicking a file on the wired
machine.

Any recommendations as to how to prevent this unwanted network activity?

Cheers,
 
I have a small home network with an irritating problem that I hope
someone could help me resolve.

The network is a USR Wireless Access Point / Router (which is the DHCP
server) with one PC wired and another wireless. This works fine for file
sharing except ....

When I right-click on any file on the wireless machine this generates
network activity. It can take quite a while before the right-click menu
is shown. Subsequent right-clicks then become almost instantaneous.
After a few minutes working on something else, the right-click again
takes thirty seconds or so before returning the menu.

Disabling the wireless card makes all these delays disappear - but of
course so does the network.

I initially thought that the right-click delay could be linked to a
network path on the Send To menu, so I removed all the entries from
there. This did not reduce the delays though. Neither does it seem to be
linked to Anti Virus or firewall software as the problem remains with
those disabled.

The problem does not happen when right-clicking a file on the wired
machine.

Any recommendations as to how to prevent this unwanted network activity?
Click to expand...

Dump Microsoft?

When you right-click on pretty much anything in Explorer, the system scans
through the clicked file - or the folder, which can be much worse - to
determine the attributes to fill in the Properties sheet that you *may* select
once it's done finding the answers to the question you haven't even asked
yet...

As size seems to matter a lot in this, folders with large numbers of files
aggravate the behavior, as do slow or improperly tuned networks...
 
Neale D. Hind said:
I have a small home network with an irritating problem that I hope
someone could help me resolve.

The network is a USR Wireless Access Point / Router (which is the DHCP
server) with one PC wired and another wireless. This works fine for
file sharing except ....

When I right-click on any file on the wireless machine this generates
network activity. It can take quite a while before the right-click menu
is shown. Subsequent right-clicks then become almost instantaneous.
After a few minutes working on something else, the right-click again
takes thirty seconds or so before returning the menu.

Disabling the wireless card makes all these delays disappear - but of
course so does the network.

I initially thought that the right-click delay could be linked to a
network path on the Send To menu, so I removed all the entries from
there. This did not reduce the delays though. Neither does it seem to
be linked to Anti Virus or firewall software as the problem remains
with those disabled.

The problem does not happen when right-clicking a file on the wired
machine.

Any recommendations as to how to prevent this unwanted network activity?
Click to expand...

UPDATE: I eventually solved this. Before I had the access point /
router, I was using peer to peer with a cross over cable. As one PC was
XP-Home and the other 98SE I had had problems with inconsistency of the
browse master. It seems that, at the time I installed the AP/Router, I
had browse master disabled on both machines (not immediately obvious as
UNC shortcuts still worked). Reactivating the browse master on the
XP-Home machine looks to have eliminated all 'right-click' delays.
 
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