I'm getting an EXTREEMLY LONG delay whenever I right click. The shortcut menu doesn't come up for 30-45 seconds! Any one else had this problem? Sounds like a registry fix but don't know where. HELP!

you may want to look at your system tray and available memory. You may have alot of programs running that you aren't aware of. Close any unneccessary programs then try it again. Also, set your pagefile to 1.5-2 times the memory in your machine. Set it for the C: drive and put the same number in for minimum and maximum. ex) 256MB RAM...set it to minimum 500 and maximum 500 for your paging file size. To do this click on start, settings, system, advanced, performance options, change, enter the size you want and click set. If you don't click set before you click ok, then it will not work. Reboot Hope this helps. Rodney

Nope, that didn't work. I only had 3 items in the system tray anyway. Changed my performance settings to 574 and 574 with 256 of memory. Used Set. Rebooted but I still have the same problem. Any other ideas?

Why not try the Performance applet in Administration Tools to see what's using all your resources?

It's not memory usage, that's very low. Left click is speedy, files open quickly, pages refresh quickly. The problem is fairly isolated to right clicking. The one other place I see a delay is when I click on the start menu. There, too, a 30 sec delay and then another delay to select an item in the list. I changed menustartdelay to zero but that didn't help. I downloaded a utility to change a reg setting that clears valueless entries for right click explor. That didn't work, but it helped with other speed issues. This is a 2 week old machine. Others like it in the office are doing fine. Same programs loaded on this as others. Any other ideas?

I had the almost same problem last night. I fixed it by uninstalling the program "Stuffit". Maybe you have program something like that... My case, when I hit the right mouse button, my computer will check either A: or CD drives and it will just stuck there. Perhaps "Stuffit" was looking for the places to send the file and... well I guess it's not designed to work with w2k. I had to suffer for about six hours and... as soon as I undeleted that program, w2k works like a magic. Good luck.

I have the same problem. I'm running W2k and eperience it everywhere within the OS but I notice that it's a lot worse in Internet Explorer 6.0. It seriously sometimes takes almost a minute for the context menu to appear. I'm not sure if it's an online or a network issue or not but if I find anything out, I'll post back here... Cleo