Right click won't work in XP

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• LION8TIGER Posts: 8,484

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  12/09/14 - 21:29 #2

  Sexbomb wrote: »

  Don't know what to do here but it's been pretty bad of late, 70% of the time it works but 30% it won't. If i right click on the taskbar, desktop icons, in an open windows explorer window and right click a file or try to extract from a zipped file, all i get is the egg timer on show and the window freezes. I can left click start and open the same window but once i try a right click the egg timer is on and nothing else happens.
  
  The only thing that clears it is i have to use task manager and end the task or end the explorer process and run it again. I can right click anywhere on the desktop and the context menu appears but once i try on the taskbar icons, or a file i just get the egg timer and a freeze. I should get a menu when i right click but it just hangs.
  
  I have recovered a backup xp image from my external 2 or 3 times ove the last 2 months but the same thing starts again after a while and cannot right click in certain areas. Is the issue an OS problem or is it the SSD hard drive? i have lost 6% health on the drive and it's 2.5 years old.
  
  If i restart and once to the desktop, i can right click a file, the icons etc for maybe 1 minute before the issue appears. A right click of the taskbar works but a right click on the green start button it hangs then i have to kill explorer again >:(
  
  I just don't know what the issue is, windows 8 seeems ok but who's to say that won't have the same issue?
  
  It seems that the context menu will not appear.

  
  What is the process in task manager using all the cpu ?

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• Sexbomb Posts: 20,005

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  13/09/14 - 00:47 #3

  Eventually found the issue, it seesm it was a shell extension in a program i'm using and had to disable it, seems good now for the time being.

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