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Opening right clicked windows is taking forever? What gives?
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ratzz:
Try opening task manager (ctrl, alt, del) and see if anything is eating resources.

Could also be a graphics driver issue.
Avrus:
Finally, a question I can answer.    :D

How many processes are you showing running in an idle state?
How much free RAM?
When you right click is there excessive hard drive thrashing or just a delay?

It could be (in order of likelyhood):
Too many processes running.
Virus.
Bad hard drive cable.
Hard drive failing.
Heat problem.
Bad RAM.
Bad motherboard.
mccoy178:
It was the video driver.  I have an ATI Radeon 9600 series video card.  I uninstalled the driver and now I can't find one from their website that works.  I'm using xp and have an AMD 64 2.2ghz processor.  I can get the lcd to work like normal, but the component is no go. :banghead:  It makes no sense why out of the blue it would start acting so weird. :banghead:
headkaze:
When you uninstall the driver (including the Catalyst control panel) reboot your machine. Then when it boots up cancel the prompts when it tries to install them automatically. Then run the Catalyst setup installer. Maybe if you give a bit more info other than "I can't find one from their website that works" might help. Selecting the Catalyst driver for XP / Radeon / Radeon 9600 series should be the correct one.

Another small thing to note, when browsing large folders of zipped files, Windows actually looks inside each zip. This will take a long time on a full Mame set. You can actually unregister XP's built in zip file management to speed things up. But you should install something like 7Zip or WinRar in it's place. I recommend the free 7Zip.

To unregister XP's built in zip management select Start->Run and type

--- Code: ---regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll
--- End code ---

By the way a simple defrag might improve performance a bit. I've seen the slow right-click problem before, in fact I've had it myself and it wasn't the video card. Patrickl might be on the money about the shell extensions.
Rabbi Bob:

--- Quote from: headkaze on October 05, 2007, 01:20:26 am ---Selecting the Catalyst driver for XP / Radeon / Radeon 9600 series should be the correct one.
--- End quote ---

In case for some reason you weren't finding the place to go to:  http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
Select the appropriate hierarchy as HeadKaze pointed out should get you what you need.
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