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re: Right click feature Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 3:38 am Posted by Patrick Moran (30 messages posted) It sounds like something I came across a while ago... spam may have loaded an app that is preventing right click... try running various spy scanners and look at your running processes... kill them one by one trying to right click it after each one stops to find out which process is holding it up ( just stay away from the svchost.. killing those may restart your system) On Friday, January 26, 2007 at 9:51 pm, Beth Monaghan wrote: >I just can't figure out why I have lost the right click feature in the start menu. >there is a slight blink of what I think is the window wanting to open...................help >please [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Right click feature Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 6:16 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) See here, see if this is any help: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_21439435.html Just scroll down to see the response, you don't need to register or anything. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Right click feature Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 6:24 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) Also remembered I had similar problems a while back that was caused by a program I installed that messed with the context (right click) menu stuff. I used ShellExView to figure out which one then uninstalled it. See here for some good help in fionding this kind of problem: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum