Re: Right Click Freezes my computer

From: Myserious (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:54:40 -0700

Nopes :-( the problem remains the same. Any other idea.

>-----Original Message-----
>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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