RE: Right click pop up menu delay 20 seconds

From: Robotrevor (Robotrevor_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/25/05


Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:11:03 -0800

If you have not had SP2 installed previously, then that might be the problem.
 If you chose the SP2 update, and installed it, then that right there might
be a problem. I'm not expert of course, but my brother has had issues with
SP2. And I too. It always seems to slow the computer down.

"mrt1" wrote:

> All,
>
> It just started happening couple weeks ago. On my windows xp professional
> machine, when I right click on the icon (word, excel, media file etc.), it is
> taking forever for the pop-up menu to appear. But on some application icons,
> it is not taking that long like Recycle bin on desktop, My Computer icon etc.
> Why is this happening and is there a fix for it? I have installed current
> updates from windowsupdate both critical and non-critical, still the problem
> persists.... Any help will be highly appreciated.
>
> --
> MRT



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