Right clicking: delay in showing meu

[John Doue]

Hi,

Occasionally, when I right click on a file, say to rename it, my machine
(SP3) becomes almost non responsive; I am not positive some disk
activity is taking place, it is not obvious. It can take quite a few
seconds before the context menu responds again.

It looks like a cache is being rebuild. Then, the right click menu will
appear normally for quite a while ... until next time.

Is there anything I can do to avoid unnecessary delay in my machine
response to a right click.

Thanks
--
John Doue

 

[Elmo]

John Doue wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Occasionally, when I right-click on a file, say to rename it, my machine
> (SP3) becomes almost non-responsive. I am not positive some disk
> activity is taking place; it is not obvious. It can take quite a few
> seconds before the context menu responds again.
>
> It looks like a cache is being rebuilt. Then, the right-click menu will
> appear normally for quite a while ... until next time.
>
> Is there anything I can do to avoid unnecessary delay in my machine
> response to a right-click?
>
> Thanks

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

--
Joe =o)

 

[John Doue]

On 4/28/2010 30 PM, Elmo wrote:
> John Doue wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Occasionally, when I right-click on a file, say to rename it, my machine
>> (SP3) becomes almost non-responsive. I am not positive some disk
>> activity is taking place; it is not obvious. It can take quite a few
>> seconds before the context menu responds again.
>>
>> It looks like a cache is being rebuilt. Then, the right-click menu will
>> appear normally for quite a while ... until next time.
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to avoid unnecessary delay in my machine
>> response to a right-click?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers:
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm
>

Thanks, I did not know that.

--
John Doue

 

[Elmo]

John Doue wrote:
> On 4/28/2010 30 PM, Elmo wrote:
>> John Doue wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Occasionally, when I right-click on a file, say to rename it, my machine
>>> (SP3) becomes almost non-responsive. I am not positive some disk
>>> activity is taking place; it is not obvious. It can take quite a few
>>> seconds before the context menu responds again.
>>>
>>> It looks like a cache is being rebuilt. Then, the right-click menu will
>>> appear normally for quite a while ... until next time.
>>>
>>> Is there anything I can do to avoid unnecessary delay in my machine
>>> response to a right-click?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers:
>> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm
>> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm
>>
>
> Thanks, I did not know that.

So, was it a network share, or a bad context menu handler? Or, have you
not found the cause yet?

--
Joe =o)