Right-Click menu when clicking desktop is slow

[Scionix]

Pretty much, whenever I right click on the desktop, the menu takes a good 3-4 seconds to appear. Right clicking folders and whatever else does not suffer this delay.

A fresh re-install of vista (I was due for one anyway) didn't fix it.

Halp?

 

[mpilchfamily]

Thats just the way it is. If you don't have 4gb of RAM then get it and that may help. But if there is no other issues then i wouldn't worry about it.

 

[Scionix]

Originally posted by: mpilchfamily
Thats just the way it is. If you don't have 4gb of RAM then get it and that may help. But if there is no other issues then i wouldn't worry about it.

I have 8GB of RAM, and have never had this problem before.

 

[Swampster]

Sometimes it isn't how much you have running, or how much memory it is consuming, but WHAT you have running.

Get Process Explorer running in half screen so you can see all columns, but still see part of your desktop. Right-click on the desktop and see what triggers.

Let us know.

 

[BusterDee]

I'm having the same problem on Vista 64 (and I also have 8 Gyg). Task Manager only shows explorer.exe doing something. It loads the CPU to 4% on a E8500 dually clocked at 3.7. When that entry goes back to 0, the menu finally pops up. I could have sworn the change happened right after a recent Windows update (maybe a week ago). The only reason it caught my eye was because Vista was updating something involving nVidia, which I've never seen happen before. I was curious and launched my nVidia panel by another route and, sure enough, it was slower now too. The Windows update history only showed security stuff, so no idea what it loaded. I've since removed the nVidia panel from the desktop context list, but both still load slowly (about 6 seconds). Everything else pops up quickly. I was accessing the nVidia panel ofter from context before because so many apps just can't handle SLI.

Anyway, I don't want to co-opt the thread. Just thought my situation might shed some light.

 

[cbns]

i have the same problem! its very annoying! i liked the desktop shortcut and i visit my nvidia control panel frequently!
it started for me after i updated to the latest driver (release date may 6 '09) 185.85
i have a core i7 with 6 gigs! some script is hanging massively!

edit - it still happens if i remove the nvidia context menu

 

[Porter21]

Have you tried different video drivers? I had this issue with XP a while back.