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Right-clicking freezes machine
Name: Fuerza Date: October 30, 2006 at 17:35:32 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: Intel P4 3.04Ghz/2048 Cor Product: MSI 865PE-Neo2-PFS Platin
Comment:
If I right-click on ANYTHING on the desktop I get the big hourglass (that has no motion) and things just churn away on the hard drive and freeze up on the system - neither mouse nor keyboard works. They work ONLY if I do a CTL-ALT-Del to restart the machine. If I let it churn away until the screen saver kicks in and goes blank screen - when I try to awaken it I get only outline images of what was last opened on the desktop. Anyone ever have this problem? Any help is welcomed. Thanks...
Name: suatcini Date: October 31, 2006 at 01:44:39 Pacific
Reply:
Hello.
Right-click a blank area on Desktop.
Click "Properties".
Click "Appearance" tab.
Click "Effects" button.
Uncheck "Use Transitions Effects..." checkbox.
Click OK as many times as neccessary to close all open windows.
Now right-click a file to see if your problem is away.
Hope the above helps.
Regards
suatcini
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Response Number 3
Name: Fuerza Date: October 31, 2006 at 15:16:56 Pacific
Reply:
Tufenuf - thanks for your suggestion - It worked!! I found the offending culprit. Thanks again.
Suatcini - I tried your suggestion first - it was the simpler of the two. Unfortunately, I did not solve the problem. I'm sure it sped XP a smidge by turning off some minor extras. Thanks...
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Response Number 4
Name: Tufenuf Date: October 31, 2006 at 16:46:00 Pacific
Reply:
Fuerza, Glad to see that the problem is fixed and Thanks for posting back to let us know.
Tufenuf
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Response Number 5
Name: suatcini Date: November 1, 2006 at 03:53:05 Pacific
Reply:
Dear Fuerza,
Could you please right down what context menu handler resolved your problem ?
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