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Crazy, Right click on Taskbar gives me cpu hog on Explorer.exe, Asus p4p800

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Loopdemack

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Motherboard is Asus p4p8000, recently I replaced my old 2 GHz Northwood with this new P4 2.4c, but Huston we have a problem, some-thing is wrong with Major Tom.

Strange things happen, because when I right click on taskbar section or on quick Launch section, Cpu time goes up to 10-30% for explorer.exe and if I do something like watching movie, I will get (if I do right click normally) pause for a second , or some kind of memory or CPU hog.

If I constantly repeat this right click, on taskbar, I can watch cpu times goes like this, 1-2 clicks 20-30%, 3-4-5 clicks 60-70%, 6-7-8 clicks gives me 90-99% and if I just continue to click on right mouse its constantly on 99% and its all on explorer.exe.

Something utilize explorer.exe on right click but what ,where can I find section in registry which is responsible for right mouse clicks and right mouse button menu ore something for desktop ,Active X or God ask what. I don't know what to blame.

Windows 2000 pro Sp4 ,Asus Motherboard p4p800, P4 2.4c, HT disabled, 1gb, Gainward fx56000 with starstorm detonators 56.67 ex, Audigy 2 NX with latest drivers , Intel chip set with latest driver.
I did sfc check and I replaced all files suspicious by Windows protection , I reinstalled Service Pack 4 , I did reinstall NVIDIA detonators, I reinstalled Intel chipset driver , I reinstalled Direct X 9, I tried with IE6 repair process ,I tried with Office 2003 reinstall or repair , I tried with registry cleaners...........
😡 😡 😡 on Microsoft

I uninstalled all suspicious freeware utilities, I checked my system with latest Nod32 definitions, and I checked everything with Spybot 1.3 and nothing.
All is clear but problems remains.
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There is a strange issue present in XP that might be related to this problem, though it isn't exactly the same, nor is the OS exactly alike in the GUI.

In XP, if you right click on certain things without selecting them, the explorer.exe CPU time shoots up to 100%, but it'll stop when you turn off the special menu effects like fade-in from the advanced settings in the "System" Control Panel program.
 
I know that this isn't directly related to the issue mentioned, but is another strange "Windows GUI right-click anomoly", in at least W2K SP2.

I have my Taskbar set to auto-hide. If I move the mouse down far enough, it will pop up (of course). I'm not sure if this is a requirement to see this next behaviour.

I noticed that if I right-click on some of the small icons, the third-party ones, and then left-click somewhere in the systray, nothing happens. But if I right-click on an MS built-in feature systray icons, such as a LAN or dialup connection-status icon, and then left-click somewhere in the systray, then from then on, until I select some other app or use a keyboard shortcut, if I move the mouse around in the systray, each icon that the mouse is hovering over, is outlined in a dashed box - almost just exactly like when using TAB and CTRL-TAB to move the button-selection focus between widgets on a dialog-box window, except that in this case, it follows the mouse, almost like the auto-magic mouse-movement window-selection that can be enabled with TweakUI (aka "X-Mouse" feature).

It just feels kind of strange. I've not seen that particular behavior anywhere else in the Windows 2000 GUI.
 
FWIW, i am having a very similar problem with XP SP1 on my 400sc (hey, it was cheap!).

i uninstalled the trial version of NOD32 a few days ago and the problem has pretty much abated. i just reinstalled NOD and we'll see if that brings it back - i never HAD a problem until i installed NOD32, and i've always been slightly suspect, but hate to give it up because it's such a great AV util.

oh yeah, and microsoft's 'fix' is retarded - i ALREADY have all that eye candy off.

keep this thread alive...
 
For XP,XP64,2003 look at this link http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;819946

For now I found 76 users around (for just 2h) the world with same problem or those who are willing to try to reproduce this bug on Win2000, its a BUG and for now there is no solution and we, as a users of windows 2000 are not documented as a BUG on Microsoft Knowledge Base.
Its a shame.
If you try to reproduce this bug on windows 2000, try to click on taskbar when you play a movie in media player, you will see some pause or try really fast to click with right mouse on taskbar you will notice 99% on Explorer.exe.
 
I think that I've heard of similar high-CPU-usage incidents as well, when someone left-clicks on a scrollbar and doesn't release it immediately. That's never happened to me personally though. I wonder if the issues are related?

Is anyone that is experiencing these issues, running NVidia video drivers? Is anyone experiencing these issues, NOT running NVidia drivers?

Likewise, number of people using an MS Optical USB mouse? People NOT using MS Optical USB mice?
 
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