Re: Slow right mouse click

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From: Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam_at_hydro.com)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:56:01 +0200

Darren Gallant wrote:

> When right clicking an application icon in the start menu.
> It takes 10 to 15 seconds for the popup menu to show up.
> The only fix I have been able to find for this is to
> downgrade from SP4 to SP2. Does anyone know a fix for this
> with SP4 installed.
Hi

If you have the Novell Netware client installed:

From: ljb (ljb220@mindspring.remove.this.com)
Subject: Fix for slow right-click shortcut context menus, Win2k+SP4+Netware
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general
Date: 2003-10-01 18:49:08 PST
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=guLeb.3517%243S.2058%40newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net

else:

Justin Scott had a similar problem after upgrading to SP3, and this was his
solution:

Subject: NEVERMIND was Re: Win2K SP3 - file/disk properties no longer display?
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:02:47 -0700
From: Justin Scott <jmscott42@spamcop.net>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general

<quote>
I've discovered the problem; apparently my firewalls (Tiny Personal Firewall
and ZoneAlarm) were keeping the Web Publishing Service from starting, which in
turn was causing VirusScan to hang and also the disk properties not to show
(due to the Web Sharing tab that should've been there).

By disabling Zonealarm and Tiny Personal Firewall, restarting, then restarting
the firewalls (and giving them the OK to allow traffic to the updated SP3
files), everything is fine now.
</quote>

Here is also some input from ZoneAlarm Support about this:
http://www.google.com/groups?&selm=ed8cdddc.0203031414.99f6e66%40posting.google.com 

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