On my windows2000 machine, I have a probem: whenever I right click on something, there is a lag of two to seven seconds for a menu (or whatever) to pop up.
It seems to be culmulitive, so if I right click, wait for the delay, get the menu, cancel it, if I rigtht click some place else, it’ll pop up right away. But if I leave it for a while (10 mins?) do normal left click and typing work, when I go to rigt click, the lag is back.
It’s verrrrry frustrating, and happens in every windows app I use, as well as the OS itself.
I am using a Athlon 1.4g, 512mb RAM. It’s a moderately recent install (three months?) I don’t use the machine much now I have a new machine at work, but it does have a lot of apps on it. Performance in other ways is fine, as you’d expect from a machine of this spec. The mouse is PS2, but I used to have a serial on on it, and it did the same thing.
When I’ve experienced this type of thing in Windows, it’s usually because Windows is (stupidly IMO) searching the network for something. For example - one of your file types may somehow have been associated with an application on a network drive. E.g. your zip files open with Winzip on a different computer. I think I’ve also seen this behavior when one or more of the items on the Start|“Documents” menu is on a remote drive.
I’ve always felt that Windows is very “network naive” in this respect.
I’ve seen the same thing (it’s taken about 60 seconds before the right-click menu came up!) and I surmised that it was trying to find something on the network. Is there any way to find out what application is causing the problem?
I had this problem. I found it got better if I turned off my Virus protection software. It was McAfee anti virus software. This was not really acceptable since downloading stuff is when you really want the virus protection. I reinstalled the anti virus software and it was fixed.
Thanks Gazpacho! Coincidentally, I changed virus checking software last night, and I notice now, after reading your post, that the problem is fixed! That would have bugged me for ever.
and a big sorry to all for posting my URL in my original post, I clean forgot. I feel like an idiot. Sory.