XP properties won't display

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Paul Lady

The normal display of the properties of a drive on my Dell have stopped
working!

When I mark and click the drive, it normally displays the used and free
space on the drive, along with other info.

How do I get this function back?

TIA, pjl
 
Paul Lady said:
The normal display of the properties of a drive on my Dell have stopped
working!

When I mark and click the drive, it normally displays the used and free
space on the drive, along with other info.

How do I get this function back?

TIA, pjl
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I should have said mark and right click!

pjl
 
Paul Lady said:
The normal display of the properties of a drive on my Dell have stopped
working!

When I mark and click the drive, it normally displays the used and free
space on the drive, along with other info.

How do I get this function back?

TIA, pjl
Click to expand...


What you get when you right click?.
Any error message and what happen if you Restore the Computer to an earlier
date before this happened?.
HTH.
nass
 
Paul said:
The normal display of the properties of a drive on my Dell have
stopped working!

When I mark and click the drive, it normally displays the used and
free space on the drive, along with other info.

How do I get this function back?
Click to expand...

Hi Paul Lady,

Do you have IIS installed?

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

Right-click is extremely slow only when Network is enabled
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm
 
nass said:
What you get when you right click?.
Any error message and what happen if you Restore the Computer to an
earlier
date before this happened?.
HTH.
nass
Click to expand...

no action I can detect on the right click. when I go to sub folders and
right click, I get a properties display, but no graphic like with a drive
showing the full-free display.
 
Same, I'm also using Ghost 10.
Had the same problem you are experiencing, I did notice that if I waited for
a very long time, eventually the Properties would display.
I did not associate this problem with Ghost and just lived with the issue.
I recently had to uninstall Ghost as it was also taking a long time to start
a backup or would just hang.
After reinstalling Ghost and using Live update, I then noticed two things:
1) Ghost responded immediately with no delays.
2) Drive properties also displayed nearly immediately.

JS
 
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