Solved Right click menu causes (not responding)

[Logman]

Hi,

Probably as much as 30% of the time when I use the right click menu Windows 7 will hang and end up with (not responding) in the title bar. Before SP1 I would get 'Windows Explorer needs to restart' often although I haven't had that since SP1 I don't think.

My computer has heaps of memory and power.

Any ideas what causes this, it's pretty tilting?

Thanks.

 

[Brink]

Hello Logman,

You might see if using METHOD TWO at the link below may be able to help with this by temporarily disabling suspect context menu items with ShellExView.

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Logman]

I did a repair install and downloaded that program.

If the repair doesn't help I'll give it a go - thanks.

 

[Brink]

You're welcome. Please let us know how it went.

 

[Logman]

Things seem a lot better since repair install - I'll let it go for a week and see what happens.

 

[Brink]

That's great news so far. Hopefully it'll stay fixed for you.

 

[Logman]

The repair has re-surfaced an old problem.

As an example, let's say I right click an item on the bookmarks bar of my browser - the menu appears, but as soon as I move my mouse toward the menu it vanishes. I previously worked out that this was due to my activation settings and went after a cure. I eventually found a registry tweak whereby I could extend the time delay before a menu is destroyed. But I can't find the tweak! I found the menushowdelay tweak but that is to tweak a delay before it shows rather than before it is destroyed.

Do you know the name of the key I want?

 

[Brink]

Not sure with that one, but double check using OPTION TWO in the tutorial below to make sure that your C:\Users\(user-name)\Favorites folder has the default location set for it.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18583-user-folders-restore-default-location.html