Re: Right Click Freezes my computer

From: Rock (rock_at_comcast.nospam.net)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:39:08 -0700

mysterious wrote:

> I'm using windows XP (SP2). When ever i right click on
> any folder on my computer, my computer freezes for
> atleast 30 secs. This problem is not related to SP2. I
> can't do anything on my computer when i right click to do
> something. But on the other hand when i'm browsing
> everything seems to fine this problem only occurs when
> ever i use my folders or open any program. Please Please
> help mein this matter. I dont want to install Windows
> again. Thanks in Advance.
>

So you're saying that you had the right click freeze problem before SP2
and upgraded hoping SP2 would fix it? It's not a good idea to upgrade a
  system that is having problems unless you know for sure the upgrade is
designed to fix the problem. In this case I would suggest you remove
SP2, fix the system then upgrade.

Right click problems are generally due to a misbehaving right click
context menu handler. Spysweeper in SP1 and SP@, and some flavors DivX
in SP2 can cause this, but any corrupt or misbehaving context menu
handler can cause problems.

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