re: Right Click Menu Speed - solution
Monday, August 18, 2008 at 4:54 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Phil
(1 messages posted)
Yes, totally worked for me. It was searching for a menu handler for a program the
was loaded on another computer.
On Monday, January 15, 2007 at 6:59 am, Steve Naughton wrote:
>These solutions did not quite work for me but here's what did:
>1) run Ethereal (free packet sniffer) and monitor your main network interface (in
>Ethereal, menu: Capture/Interfaces...)
>2) right click on a file that causes the slow response
>3) in Ethereal you should get a few ARP packets. The Info column lists the IP address
>it is trying to connect to.
>4) Using NirSoft's RegScanner, search for this IP address in your registry. You
>should find several keys with the name .../shell/open/command with a default value
>containing the IP address.
>For me, there were four keys referring to a single exe located on a machine that
>was turned off. I deleted the default key values and immediately the delay went
>away.
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