Explorer hangs when getting properties on any file

From: Brent Allard (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:52:12 -0700

Had a very strange problem with a PC yesterday and now
having the same thing happen with a 2nd PC at our company
today. When you do a right mouse click on a file, it will
hang explorer for 2-3 minutes. IE does a similar thing,
will take several minutes to start responding.

Taskmanager shows nothing happening during these hangs.
The disk activity is null. You can run other applications
such as Photoshop just fine while the hang is occuring.

I've tried just about everything, including, running virus
scan (mcafee 7.1 enterprise), running adware check with
Adaware, re-installing SP1, doing a full repair of XP from
CD boot.

Any ideas?

BDA

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