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Windows XP right click gobbles up CPU time...

Wow.. its true. Open up the task manager and look at the graph when you right click on a file. It stays at 100% for as long as the drop down box is open. :Q
 
I hear SP-1 (slow poke one) flubbed up wXP. Makes it run in sloMo because of buffer over run. Got SP-1?
 
Originally posted by: John
I don't seem to be affected by this "bug".
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try highlighting a group of files, then right click next to the files (not on a file.....just the "white space"). do this with task manager open.

weird.
 
Originally posted by: Vortex22
Wow.. its true. Open up the task manager and look at the graph when you right click on a file. It stays at 100% for as long as the drop down box is open. :Q
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yup

sure enough. In Explorer anyway, on the desktop it doesn't seem to do that.

 
Doesn't do it for me, using XP Pro SP1. No other processes are stealing Seti's CPU time.
 
Originally posted by: John
Originally posted by: iamme
Originally posted by: John
I don't seem to be affected by this "bug".
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try highlighting a group of files, then right click next to the files (not on a file.....just the "white space"). do this with task manager open.

weird.
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I still never get above 10%. Maybe the MS Hot Fix for nforce 2 users fixed this problem?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q815411
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MB it's because you have an Athlon CPU. the article did say it was confirmed on PIII and PIV cpus.

 
For those of you that say it's not happening on your system, are you exactly following the steps to re-create it from the article?

". . . using Windows Explorer and right clicking on a file gobbles up the CPU to the tune of 100% . . . the problem only happens when you select files with a right click of the mouse, not having selected the file with a left click first."

It's only when you select the file for the first time by right clicking, apparantly. And it's happening to me too, dammit.
 
For those of you that say it's not happening on your system, are you exactly following the steps to re-create it from the article?

". . . using Windows Explorer and right clicking on a file gobbles up the CPU to the tune of 100% . . . the problem only happens when you select files with a right click of the mouse, not having selected the file with a left click first."

It's only when you select the file for the first time by right clicking, apparantly. And it's happening to me too, dammit.
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Happens on my XP 1700+/XP rig as well,I hope Microsoft do get round to fixing it,another fix to add to SP2 😉.



 
Originally posted by: AndrewNF
For those of you that say it's not happening on your system, are you exactly following the steps to re-create it from the article?

". . . using Windows Explorer and right clicking on a file gobbles up the CPU to the tune of 100% . . . the problem only happens when you select files with a right click of the mouse, not having selected the file with a left click first."

It's only when you select the file for the first time by right clicking, apparantly. And it's happening to me too, dammit.
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Doesn't do it for me. XP pro, SP1, XP1700, KT400.
 
Originally posted by: SpookyFish
Originally posted by: AndrewNF
For those of you that say it's not happening on your system, are you exactly following the steps to re-create it from the article?

". . . using Windows Explorer and right clicking on a file gobbles up the CPU to the tune of 100% . . . the problem only happens when you select files with a right click of the mouse, not having selected the file with a left click first."

It's only when you select the file for the first time by right clicking, apparantly. And it's happening to me too, dammit.
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Doesn't do it for me. XP pro, SP1, XP1700, KT400.
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Interesting, i'm also running XP pro, SP1, an XP1700 and a KT400 board. What other components do you have in your rig?
 
Personally I don't think this has anything to do with what hardware you have. I think it's what shell extensions you have installed. You know how if you install Winzip, and then you get about 4 new entries added to the right-click menu on every file.. I've seen some buggy extensions do this before.

The only program I have installed on all my machines that adds extensions is WinRAR. And all of my machines are not affected at all. Highlighting any amount of files and right-clicking causes no amount of CPU usage..
 
Doesn't do it for me. My CPU continues crunching SETI at ~100% usage regardless of how I bring up a right-click menu.


edit: athlon 700, but I really doubt it is a hardware issue.
 
There is a fix for this:

Go to: Control Panel > Display > Appearance Tab > Effects Button and *disable* (uncheck) the transition effects.
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Yep! It fixes the problem 😀 .

Btw jwkuipers, welcome to the AT forums 🙂.
 
It only happens for me about half the time. It only happens on large files, not small ones. I don't notice any "real" slowdowns when right clicking.
 
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