Dead Slow Right Click on Desktop

[XGUNTHERC]

When right clicking on the desktop. You can Create a new Folder, Enter the Nvidia Control Panel (and I do often), go to personalize, and something else I do often. "Refresh" I right click and do refresh all the time. I'm not sure it helps anything. It's a bad habit I started in XP.

Basically When I first loaded 7.. it seemed fine. I installed a bunch of drivers, so I'm not sure what one did it. But now when I right click while I'm on the desktop. It takes a solid 3 or so seconds to pop-up.. that is WAY to slow. Vista it was instant.. and Win7 was at first also.

Everything else seems speedy. Starting from Shutdown.. opening programs. Everything is pretty speedy. But the right click feature I use often. It's really slow.

does anyone have any idea's or suggestions?

Also, when I right click on Taskbar, or any of the desktop icons, it's super Fast. only the right click on the actual desktop.

Any help would be great. I think I might go back to WHQL Nvidia driver instead of the BETA for 7. that is what I think I'll try first.

 

[JapanVidMan]

Exact same problem here too. And it occurred after I installed the new NVIDIA driver as well. It improved so many things (including my BSOD issue) that I hate to roll back to a previous one. I suppose I can live with the delay if it isn't anything serious causing it. Any thoughts?

 

[XGUNTHERC]

Ya that is what I was thinking. as everything else seems fine. but The last update I did was the NV one. and that is when it started i think. on the NV 185.81 BETA. I think I'll go back to the WHQL and see how that works.

 

[XGUNTHERC]

PROBLEM SOLVED..

My Graphics card was not downclocking into 2D Mode, and when I right Click on desktop it was very slow.

I downgraded from the Win 7 BETA driver to the latest Windows Vista x64 182.50 WHQL driver and it's all perfect now. and right click is speedy.

 

[FreakyFerret]

Yeah, it's a problem with the latest nVidia driver. :/ I can give another observation and confirmation to this.

 

[Mark]

I have that driver installed and my right click context menu on the desktop appears instantly.

 

[Jonmor68]

I didn't install any Nvidia drivers on the RC, I left it as W7 install set it, I had no notifications about it in action panel, so I didn't bother. My right click is instant.

 

[XGUNTHERC]

what do you mean jon.. I see your point about you didn't get a notification. but if you have something like a GTX 260 like I do. you must install a graphics display driver..

Not sure why yours is fine grim, but the vista WHQL solved it and I'm all good now. hopefully the next Win 7 NV driver will fix it. so I can run a actual win 7 driver.

 

[nuluis]

Problem Solved

A really quick and easy fix is to simply remove the NVIDIA Control Panel context menu handler, NvCplDesktopContext manually from the registry. Its just a bug and you can access the nvcp from start menu or control panel.

Found under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\

(provided you dont rely too much on the nvidia control panel shortcut.)

 

[scaramonga]

It's a known problem with the 185 driver set, lots complaining over at Nvnews also, bear with it, worse drivers to come from Nvidia

I am having a blast with them on the new 'Killing Floor' game though

 

[ofish]

A really quick and easy fix is to simply remove the NVIDIA Control Panel context menu handler, NvCplDesktopContext manually from the registry. Its just a bug and you can access the nvcp from start menu or control panel.

Found under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\

(provided you dont rely too much on the nvidia control panel shortcut.)

working like a charm!!

 

[madi3d8]

Doesn't work
Windows 7 sp1 64bit latest updated, latest NVIDIA driver.
When i Rightclick on the file, it's very slow, about

 

[ericdean]

after updating my nvidia drivers, i too experienced a noticeable delay with the right click menu on my desktop and browser.

i used control panel -> programs and features to uninstall nvidia's 3d vision controller driver plus on other 3d driver i had. this resolved the issue i had with the delay in the right click menu.

try this solution if you don't do any 3d gaming/computing.

 

[cdsJerry]

After searching several forums I found the answer. In my case it was the Roxio virtual CD drive but this solution will allow you to find it even if it's something else. It did require that I download shellexview from nirsoft.net and I admit that made me a bit nervous however I scanned the files with Norton and they came back as being safe. The company has been around a while and seems to have a good reputation.
The program made it much easier than editing the registry as I could easily Undo my changes for trial and error problem solving.
Here's the post from another forum.
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Download ShellExView (from nirsoft.net) and run it. It will scan the registry for all the shell extensions. Once the scan is over and the list is displayed, you need to spot the context menu handlers. Sort the results using "Type", so that the context menu handlers are displayed together.
The rule is to disable non-Microsoft context menu handlers *one-by-one* and verify if the problem is solved. If disabling one does not solve the problem, undo the disabled item and disable the next non-Microsoft handler. Do the same until the problem is solved and finally identify the culprit. Scroll right to see the Company Name column in ShellExView.

Even more quicker method is to bisect the list of context menu handlers into two groups, disabling half of the entries at a stretch, rebooting and testing the behavior again. JClarke commented on this article:
You can disable them ...they say "one at a time" and see what effect it has on the problem. I did it a lot quicker by bisecting the list, disabling half of the entries in one fell swoop, rebooting and trying the right click.
It worked, so I knew I just had to narrow it down, just as we used to do with msconfig. Then I kept bisecting the list until it was just a few and did those one at a time. The problem is that you have to reboot between tries to get accurate testing of the results of your disabling. I didn't find logging off to be consistent.

Problems when you right-click an empty area in the Desktop?

If you have a problem when you right-click on a blank area on the Desktop, then you need to inspect the handlers in this registry key. (ShellExView v1.14 and later versions enumerate the items from this location)
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Directory \ Background \ shellex \ ContextMenuHandlers
The only handler present by default (in a clean XP installation) is the New handler. If you find any additional sub-keys there, it may have be added by third-party applications. Usually, the software that comes with your graphic card adds entries to the above location. Here is one instance, an article from the Intel Graphics Controller website.