- Context Menu causes comp.to hang
- Posted by on March 7th, 2004
I'm running Win98SE and everytime I try to right click on
the desktop or in windows explorer I get a little
hourglass and my computer will hang indefinetly. I can
bring up the context menu in applications like Internet
Explorer and notepad. I believe it is a registry problem.
I've had this problem for about a month now and ran out
off ideas on what to look for, any help would be
appreciated.
- Posted by Bill Blanton on March 7th, 2004
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The Windows shell (Explorer) shares many libraries with IE.
Later versions of IE have a repair tool that verifies and re-registers
its library files.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=194177
Another thing you can try is to boot to DOS and at the prompt enter
the command SCANREG /FIX This will essentially clean up the
registry.
Another possibility is that you have a program that has added a
corrupt context menu entry in the registry, or a handler for a context
menu item is hanging and not returning to explorer, or is returning
but returning bad data. Did you install any apps just prior to the
problem?
- Posted by Nigel Stapley on March 7th, 2004
Do you have Norton Anti Virus?
A Live Update some weeks ago caused this sort of problem. If you think this
is possible, visit the Symantec support site, where I'm sure they have a
fix.
HTH
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Regards
Nigel Stapley
www.judgemental.plus.com
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