I was working on microsoft word and need a site for a refrence. When i went to right click a picture the context menu would not appear. i tried it on every site including google and could not make the context menu appear. THe weird part about it i it appears on the desktop and in my folders just not on the internet. I uninstalled it and reinstalled the mouse but nothing changed. I have an optical mouse if that gives any clue. does any one know how i can get the context menu back.

fyi - context menus are derived from the application they're invoked from - reinstalling the mouse would have been a pointless exercise. When you're "on the internet" you're using a browser (no doubt IE) - that would be the place to focus your attention (not sure what Word has to do with anything) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Well if it is a problem with internet explorer which is my browser than how do i fix this. also i brought up word because i had a context menu in word.

You could try to repair IE, Control Panel> add/remove> IE(What ever version)> add / remove> A box will display giving you 3 choices, select repair. Avagoodweekend.

Thanks for the advice but it still wont work. I just found out something interesting though from my brother and that is that he told me the computer said he needed an upgraded mshtml.dll file from the 4.0 we had so he found one recommended by computing.net and got version 6. I dont know if it has anything to do with the internet but i have IE5.5 if that will help any.

Mshtml.dll is HTML Viewer. Can't see any reason to link it with your problem. When you run IE Repair it is liable to report any number of files that might be outdated. If it didn't report anything like that when you ran it I think you can forget it. On the vague offchance that this is some registry screw-up you could Shut Down and Restart in MS-DOS and type scanreg /fix (hit Return key). This will rebuild your current registry and is harmless. Often fixes general problems but none too confident about this one. Type exit (Return) to restart Windows. Has this problem suddenly arrived? If it was recent you could try scanreg /restore (same procedure as given) and choose a registry dated just before the problem came along. Derek.W

Thanks derek for your advice but still no go. Do you think it has something to do with my registry. I have not touched my registry or put anything new on my computer except for the mshtml.dll file in months.