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Opening right clicked windows is taking forever? What gives?
mccoy178:
When I right click a window on my cabinet or open any xp window for that matter, it takes a long time to show up and the computer slows down. It takes about 3 seconds for a right clicked window to open when it should be instantaneous. Also, I ran -listxml for .119 through a command window and it took almost an hour. Any ideas as to what could cause this? All programs run at full speed with no issues. It's just the xp part that is acting weird. :dunno
mccoy178:
Bump since I completely changed the thread.
patrickl:
Probably a problem with one of the shell extentions.
:edit: You could try NirSift ShellExView. There is a link on that site that shows a step by step how to see where the problem comes from.
Not sure how that could delay opening regular windows though.
mccoy178:
Quote from: boykster
--- Quote ---have you checked the memory usage and pagefile size/usage when it's slow? Is it better after a reboot, but gets gradually worse, or is it always bad?
--- End quote ---
It's always slow. Also, the memory is way low too. That is what is confusing. The only possible thing I can think of that I did during the time I noticed it was slow was install the keywiz 2.0 software. Since then I've deleted and reinstalled it, but no change. So, again, I think that it is something that occurs all the time, i.e. nothing obvious that I open causes it, and it only effects xp windows such as right clicking and the start menu. Left clicking like opening one folder to the next is unaffected. I also noticed that clrmame pro would run very fast on its own, but with the torrent program open, it was slowed way down. But again, nothing is showing as far as resources being hogged.
--- Quote from: patrickl on October 04, 2007, 03:50:43 am ---Probably a problem with one of the shell extentions.
:edit: You could try NirSift ShellExView. There is a link on that site that shows a step by step how to see where the problem comes from.
Not sure how that could delay opening regular windows though.
--- End quote ---
Thanks for the tip. I tried it and didn't see any improvement although it sounded like that those would cause exactly what I'm experiencing. I attached the above from another forum to provide more info. Thanks again patrickl. :cheers:
patrickl:
I've had something similar after installing some drivers for an MP3 player IIRC. Can you go back to a saved state?
You might also try cleaning your temp directory.
I also had problems with a network drive that didn't exist (anymore) it would block my Save File Dialogs for a minute or so. It's all so frustrating when it suddenly stops working for no apparent reason.
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