Re: Right click hangs computer

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From: Don Taylor (dont_at_agora.rdrop.com)
Date: 09/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:04:38 -0500

"Dick Kistler" <dickkist@Remove-hotmail.com> writes:
>> Some claim it is "ShellExtensions", little accessory gadgets that
>> sort of script extra cute features. The advice for that is to
>> install free ShellExView and to try (carefully) disabling these
>> features one at a time, if turning one off doesn't do anything then
>> turn it back on and try again. I did that with all 75 at once and
>> it made no difference at all. One person sent me mail saying that
>> disabling one extension he had did appear to fix his problem.

>Just one more data point. Right clicking a file or folder in Windows
>Explorer crashed it. Of course it restarted. Doing this ShellExView
>thing and disabling all non Microsoft shell extensions fixed the problem.

Ah, perhaps a good data point. What's the list of the non Microsoft
extensions that you had? Maybe we can narrow down the list and have
a bit more of a clue.

>Eventually I re-enabled some of the nVidia desktop manager shell
>extensions with no problem. Have subsequently installed some of
>Windows 95 power tools that create shell extensions. No problems
>yet. Not enthusiastic about searching through the extensions to find
>the bad actor(s) since I didn't use them anyway. Still have more extensions
>I would like to get rid of, since ShellExView didn't get rid of all of them.

I don't know, but you might be surprised at some of the less than obvious
side effects of some of those extensions. But I'm a little confused
about your last sentence. Can you explain? It only disables the ones
you ask it to, doesn't it?

But then adding new software to the mix can start to muddy the water.

>Oh yeah. I am running XP Home SP2 since August 9. Only real problem
>I have had. Didn't find it earlier because I don't use Windows Explorer
>as a file manager.

As one astute person wrote, with the bazillions of "features" in XP
NOBODY knows all the unseen problems they have lurking in the background,
before, or after, they install SP2.

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