When I right click on any give icon, it takes far too long for my menu options to appear. It used to be almost instantly and now takes approx 15-20 seconds before the menu pops up. How can I correct this problem and does anyone know what causes it? No new software has been recently installed and all hardware checks out fine. Thanks in advance.

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Try this.  https://getca.verisign.com/update.html  Click accept, and download and 
install this fix.
Your right-click should go back to normal.






On Monday, January 12, 2004 at 1:16 pm, Jeff Scarnato wrote:
>When I right click on any give icon,  it takes far too long for my menu options 
to 
>appear.  It used to be almost instantly and now takes approx 15-20 seconds before 
>the menu pops up.  How can I correct this problem and does anyone know what causes 
>it?  No new software has been recently installed and all hardware checks out fine. 
> Thanks in advance.

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You can tell when the new one is correctly installed:

Open up IE
Go to Tools / Internet Options
Content / Certificates
Click on the Trusted Root Certificates Tab
Click on the Expiration tab (this will sort by date)
Scroll to the bottom and you will see several by Verisign set to expire in 2028.

These are the ones that get installed.

Bob Cerelli






On Monday, January 12, 2004 at 1:41 pm, mojo7819 wrote:
>Try this.  https://getca.verisign.com/update.html  Click accept, and download and 
>install this fix.
>Your right-click should go back to normal.
>
>



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Thanks, I'll give it a try. Any idea as to what may have caused this in the first place?


On Monday, January 12, 2004 at 1:41 pm, mojo7819 wrote:

>Try this.  https://getca.verisign.com/update.html  Click accept, and download and 
>install this fix.
>Your right-click should go back to normal.
>
>

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Verisign's root certificate expired on 1/7/04.  What is happening, is when you right-click, 
it finds an expired certificate, and attempts to locate an updated one, hence the 
delay.  The delay also happens when trying to open programs such as Excel, Word, 
etc.






On Tuesday, January 13, 2004 at 6:38 am, Jeff Scarnato wrote:
>
>Thanks,  I'll give it a try.  Any idea as to what may have caused this in the first 
>place?
>

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outstanding. Thank you.


On Tuesday, January 13, 2004 at 6:40 am, mojo7819 wrote:

>Verisign's root certificate expired on 1/7/04.  What is happening, is when you right-click, 
>it finds an expired certificate, and attempts to locate an updated one, hence the 
>delay.  The delay also happens when trying to open programs such as Excel, Word, 
>etc.
>
>

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You are very welcome!







On Tuesday, January 13, 2004 at 7:53 am, Jeff Scarnato wrote:
>
>outstanding.  Thank you.
>

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Yes, thank you for the fix. I thought it was something with my new wireless connection and was going to leave it


On Tuesday, January 13, 2004 at 8:11 am, mojo7819 wrote:

>You are very welcome!
>
>
>

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I just installed the new certificates from Verisign but still get the right-click delay. Should I manually remove the certificates that expired on january 8th ?


On Monday, January 12, 2004 at 3:19 pm, Bob Cerelli wrote:

>You can tell when the new one is correctly installed:
>
>Open up IE
>Go to Tools / Internet Options
>Content / Certificates
>Click on the Trusted Root Certificates Tab
>Click on the Expiration tab (this will sort by date)
>Scroll to the bottom and you will see several by Verisign set to expire in 2028.
>
>These are the ones that get installed.

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http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm This fixed it for me when nothing else would.


On Monday, January 12, 2004 at 1:16 pm, Jeff wrote:
>When I right click on any give icon, it takes far too long for my menu options to
>appear. It used to be almost instantly and now takes approx 15-20 seconds before
>the menu pops up. How can I correct this problem and does anyone know what causes
>it? No new software has been recently installed and all hardware checks out fine.
> Thanks in advance.

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Tried the verisign solution and it didn't work. This did, yay!!


On Friday, March 11, 2005 at 4:08 pm, geremy cohen wrote:
>http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm
>
>This fixed it for me when nothing else would.
>
>
>

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On Friday, April 1, 2005 at 10:11 am, Mollie LaFollette wrote:

>Tried the verisign solution and it didn't work. This did, yay!! 

Okay, neither has worked for me still...I'm stumped. And it's only when right clicking 
on a file, not just right-clicking in general. 

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i have the same problem and i have tried everything Jeff. How did you do it. Can you please tell me ASAP. I have a pretty good computer.


On Tuesday, January 13, 2004 at 7:53 am, Jeff wrote:
>
>outstanding. Thank you.
>

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IT WORKS !!

I too had that bizzare right-click menu delay by clicking on folders, files, shortcuts... The delay of approx. 10sec. appeared just on a first right-click for a group of items. The second one, on the same or another item, had rarely a delay.

The explanations on http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm were perfect

Everything is back to normal. THANKS!

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I tried the http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm tips, but still found a delay. My delay was similar to deno's where it was only the first time I brought up the menu (and any menu that contained icons, not just right-click). The menu itself, will appear with no words. Then after it builds an icon cache, the menu items appear. After the icons are cached, the menu speed is normal. So, thinking that I probably was to blame for this, I reviewed in my head what I could have done to affect the icons (particularly the ones that populate my Desktop toolbar and Quick Launch toolbar menus). Suddenly it dawned on me: I told TweakUI to put the LIGHT ARROW on shortcut icons - this deviates from the norm, so I gave it a shot. I actually switched the option to use NONE (no arrow) and have not re-experienced this delay. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but I think I might have found my answer.


On Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 9:15 pm, deno wrote:
>IT WORKS !!


>
>I too had that bizzare right-click menu delay by clicking on folders, files, shortcuts...
> The delay of approx. 10sec. appeared just on a first right-click for a group of
>items. The second one, on the same or another item, had rarely a delay.

>
>The explanations on http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm
>were perfect

>
>Everything is back to normal. THANKS!
>

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I had the same problem , it was solved by removing the root cirtificates solution Thank you very much as i was facing this problem from very long time

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The delay returned, regardless of the TweakUI setting. I am about ready to re-image my machine and be done with it.

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I am facing the same problem (right click menu delay) along with long-delay when I try to delete a file using DELETE button, when I try to open a simple text file (by double-clicking on the file), when I try to open word document, PDF document, or for that matter, any file (again, by double-clicking on the file). I tried VeriSign certificate option and also disabled all non-Microsoft context menu handlers & rebooted the system. But this problem still persists Are there any other ways of solving this issue? Please inform.


On Tuesday, August 1, 2006 at 5:43 am, Jaremy wrote:
>The delay returned, regardless of the TweakUI setting. I am about ready to re-image
>my machine and be done with it.
>
>

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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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ive had the right click problem for a long time - i tried alot of solution to fix the problem then i came across this site after searching google http://www.highprosoft.com/Default.aspx?tabid=101 there free product helped me and by the look of thing lots of other people to! Information always helps others:


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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I have seen the following work well on some systems: Open regedit go to My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2 At the top of the list you may find entries like ##Servername#sharename such as ##Oldserver-that-is-gone#share-that-is-gone Delete these entries. Windows explorer keeps looking for these servers and if they don't exist it will choke on them.


On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 at 12:54 am, Sriram wrote:
>I am facing the same problem (right click menu delay) along with long-delay when
>I try to delete a file using DELETE button, when I try to open a simple text file
>(by double-clicking on the file), when I try to open word document, PDF document,
>or for that matter, any file (again, by double-clicking on the file).
>
>I tried VeriSign certificate option and also disabled all non-Microsoft context menu
>handlers & rebooted the system.
>
>But this problem still persists
>
>Are there any other ways of solving this issue? Please inform.
>
>
>
>

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The Delay in response of right clicks in winxp is mostly caused by installation of the wrong grapics card driver. When this occurs, its either because other drivers or a process has tampered with your current graphics card driver settings. reinstalling your graphics card settings should fix this. I hope it works for everyone as its always worked for me.


On Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 1:21 pm, Mwojcik wrote:
>I have seen the following work well on some systems:
>
>Open regedit
>go to My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2
>
>At the top of the list you may find entries like ##Servername#sharename
>such as ##Oldserver-that-is-gone#share-that-is-gone
> Delete these entries. Windows explorer keeps looking for these servers and if they
>don't exist it will choke on them.
>
>

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