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Hello everyone,I have a strange problem where my PC would idle and take a long time for the Contextual Menu to show up when I Right Click on a blank space on the Desktop. It literally take about 10 - 15 seconds for the Menu to show up.After that it is fast again.

Then after awhile it does it again. I don't know what the problem is. I try to do a Clean install of Windows 10 Pro. Wipe everything clean and install it on a 256GB Samsung Pro SSD, and it still does it. There is barely anything on the Contextual Menu so I don't know what the problem is.Here is my PC Spec.Intel i7 3.2Ghz12GB DDR3 12GB RAMNvidia 770 GTXCorsair Liquid CoolCorsair 850 HX Power Supply256GB SSD Drive3TB Hitachi Touro External Drive USB 3.0Currently I only have a few essential programs install on my PC so don't think it is causing it.1.) Adobe Master Collection CS62.) Microsoft Office 20133.) Google Chrome4.) BitTorrent Por5.) Skype Desktop6.) Samsung Magician Software7.) ShellFolder Fix x64.

Mar 21, 2019  When I right click on my desktop it takes forever to open the menu also if create or paste a new file there it takes over 5 minutes to respond. What might be wrong?

Hey Darkvelvet,I had the exact same issue as you did. Fortunately, I was able to fix it, and here's how I did it.Hold down the Windows Key and R. This will open up the 'run' dialogue box.It looks like this:Type the following in the box: regeditClick 'Ok' or press the 'Enter' key.This will open the registry editor.Once open, navigate through the folders using this path:HKEYCLASSESROOTDirectorybackgroundshellexContextMenuHandlersOnce there, make sure you click on the drop-down arrow. You'll see a few folders.It should look something like this:You should find a folder with the name of the graphics driver, in your case, NVidia.BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE YOU MUST BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY JUST IN CASEClick FileExportName the file anything and save it anywhere you'll remember.If anything goes wrong, you can double-click this file and it will restore the registry to its previous state.Now lets get back to the NVidia folder.Delete it.To make the full change it may require a PC restart.I hope this helps!:)-Tey TeyAnd by the way, Welcome to the Ten Forums!

Hello Tey, I try your method Deleted the Nvidia Menu from Regedit and restarted my pc and it still doesn't work. Contextual Menu is still taking a very long time to show up.I'm starting to think it could be my 3TB External Toshiba Touro Drive.

I check Energy Saving Mode to not have it go to sleep, but from time to time when I try to access the Drive it take a while to open it and access it. Very strange and I don't know how to fixed it. I also have a few none SSD Internal Hard drive in my Computer as well. I will try unplug the drive and see if it the External Drive that is causing the problem. Computer Type: LaptopSystem Manufacturer/Model Number: Acer V3 771G-6443OS: Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bitCPU: i5-3230mMotherboard: Acer VA70HC (U3E1)Memory: 8GB DDR3 PC3-12800 (800 MHz)Graphics Card: HD4000 + GeForce GT 730MSound Card: Realtek High Definition AudioMonitor(s) Displays: 17' Generic PnP Display on Intel HD Graphics 4000Screen Resolution: 1600x900 pixelsMouse: BuetoothPSU: 90W BrickCooling: Laptop, it sucksHard Drives: Samsung EVO 850 SSD (250GB)ADATA SP900 SSD (128GB)Antivirus: Comodo.

That doesn't seam to work either, I don't think it's my Contextual Menu is having the problem because when load the program, there only a few in there and when I disabled it, still get the same result.I did however unplug my Hitachi 3TB Toura External Hard Drive and it doesn't seam to do it anymore. However, this hard drive it seam to idle and go into Hibernation or sleep mode when it is inactive for a long time. I was wandering if anyone have a Solution to Disabled the Hibernation on External Hard Drive?

Right Click On Desktop Takes Forever

Or make it not idle and go to sleep?I notice everytime I right click on the Desktop for the Contextual Menu the External Hard Drive Light Blink a couple of time meaning it access it everytime the menu come up. So looking for a Solution to not have the Menu access the Hard Drive or make the Hard Drive always active, not go into Hibernation would be great.Thanks!.I did however unplug my Hitachi 3TB Toura External Hard Drive and it doesn't seam to do it anymore. However, this hard drive it seam to idle and go into Hibernation or sleep mode when it is inactive for a long time. I was wandering if anyone have a Solution to Disabled the Hibernation on External Hard Drive? Or make it not idle and go to sleep?I notice everytime I right click on the Desktop for the Contextual Menu the External Hard Drive Light Blink a couple of time meaning it access it everytime the menu come up.

So looking for a Solution to not have the Menu access the Hard Drive or make the Hard Drive always active, not go into Hibernation would be great.Thanks!Have you tried disabling the USB power-save feature? Computer Type: PC/DesktopSystem Manufacturer/Model Number: Custom BuildOS: W10Prox64CPU: Core i7-6700Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VIII HeroMemory: 2x8GB DDR4-2400Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX-960Sound Card: on-boardMonitor(s) Displays: ASUS VE247Screen Resolution: 1920x1080Keyboard: Logitech K800 Wrls, IlluminatedMouse: Anker ErgoPSU: EVGA NEX750GCase: Corsair Obsidian 750DCooling: Corsair Vortex PlusHard Drives: Samsung SSD 850EVO 250GB + 2x2TB SpinnersInternet Speed: 100MbpsOther Info: Many thanks to essenbe for his help putting this monster together! I check and none of it is checked. I have also went in Power Saving mode and make sure Hard Drive and Power Saving USB Saving have all turn off.This have been bothering me for year already with no solution. I thought installing Windows 10 Pro would fixed it, but sadly it does not. It always cause my PC occasionally freeze and the Hard Drive take awhile for it to open. It have gone so bad that beside the Contextual Menu is slow, but opening and Empty the Recycle Bin also slow as well.I try a Freeware Program call 'No Sleep HD'This program will writes an empty text file every few minutes to your external hard drive to keep it from going into auto-sleep mode.

Will report back if it's working. However, even if it work, I rather not use this method since I don't want to have this program always open at Startup and running in my Taskbar all the time, and always writing files to the Hard Drive shorten the life of the Hard Drive. The sleep function is in the firmware for the external drive.

There is no simple way to disable it other than using a program like 'NoSleepHD'. I would not want an application like that running all the time, though.Do you NEED the external drive plugged in all the time? If so, maybe you should open the drive case and install it in the PC. I've done that a couple times. Keep the external case, though, so you can make it a 'portable' drive again if the need arises.If the drive is used for automatic continuous backups, you'd probably be best served by a network-connected drive.My 2 cents. Computer Type: PC/DesktopSystem Manufacturer/Model Number: MeOS: Windows 10 Pro x64 RTMCPU: i7 920Motherboard: ASUS P6TMemory: 12GBGraphics Card: Geforce 650TiSound Card: integratedMonitor(s) Displays: Yes, I have monitor(s) DisplaysScreen Resolution: 96 dpiKeyboard: Logitech K740 backlitMouse: Logitech G400PSU: Corsair 850 WattCase: Full towerCooling: Good old fans and heatsinks.Hard Drives: Present and spinning.well.except for the SSD. It just sits there.Internet Speed: 60Mb/3MbBrowser: ChromeAntivirus: F-Secure.

The sleep function is in the firmware for the external drive. There is no simple way to disable it other than using a program like 'NoSleepHD'.

I would not want an application like that running all the time, though.Do you NEED the external drive plugged in all the time? If so, maybe you should open the drive case and install it in the PC. I've done that a couple times. Keep the external case, though, so you can make it a 'portable' drive again if the need arises.If the drive is used for automatic continuous backups, you'd probably be best served by a network-connected drive.My 2 cents.Using NoSleepHD seam to be working, but like you said, I really don't want to used this method since it's bad for the hard drive and may even shorten the life of it. Not to mention it may overheat it also.I really don't want to tear the Hard Drive apart since this is the only External Drive I have. It have to be on most of the time because I'm using it as a Network Drive using Windows Sharing plug in my PC since it isn't a Cloud Network Drive. If there is no Solution, does anyone know if replacing it with an External Cloud Hard Drive will work?

Does it go to sleep as well?

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Hi everyone, I'm a new guy here. Let's just get to the point.When I right-click on the desktop it takes forever just to load the right-click menu. The desktop freezes but other applications works fine (i.e. WLM, Chrome). I tried Googling but can't find what I wanted.I found a similar problem, but it was from 2009 involving NVIDIA graphic driver problem.On a side note, my NVIDIA Control Panel also can't execute. Does this have any connection with my problem? I last updated the drivers with.Please do tell me if I need to provide another information regarding this.

Thanks.I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit, Intel i5, NVIDA GeForce GT230M, 4GB RAM. Do you have a drive mapping to a drive that is no longer valid? IE an external drive or another drive on your network? Phantom drives area killer. If you do have a mapping to something that isnt there disconnect it.I don't quite get what you mean, but when I go to system restore I see one drive labeled: 'C: (Missing)'. I think this is due to my Windows crashed on November last year, assumption: bad sector in a folder.

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It repairs itself (not through System Repair) so I don't know what exactly happened. I didn't change any hardware since then, and my external HDD is always unplugged when not in use. System Manufacturer/Model Number Sony Vaio C series VPCCB35FN laptopOS MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1CPU IntelCore i5@2.40GHz; Sandy Bridge 32nm Tech.Motherboard Sony Vaio Version:C609NJYJMemory 4096Mb RAM; Single ChannelDDR3@665MHz; DRAM Freq:662MHzGraphics Card AMD Radeon HD 6630M; GPU:Whistler;BIOS Core&mem Clock:123.36Sound Card REALTEK High Definition Audio Device; INTEL Display CardMonitor(s) Displays Generic PnP Intel HD;Resolution:1920.1040 Pixels; BPP:32bitsScreen Resolution Current Resolution:1920.1080 Pixels; Monitor Frequency:60Hz.

Keyboard Logitech Bluetooth+ Generic Integrated K-BMouse Logitech BluetoothCooling Lateral Exhaust with a Cooling Pad Placed Beneath.Hard Drives Internal HD:TOSHIBA MK5061GSY; Real Size:488 GB;NTFS; 3 Partitions; SATA; HEADS:16External HDD: WD Elements 1023 PORTABLE; Estimated Size: 1TB; NTFS; 3 PartitionsInternet Speed 2MBPSOther Info 1)Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security Suite Version:32)SAS-PRO3)MBAM-PRO4)WATERFOX+IE9 +WOT+LINKEXTEND+ DRWEBCUREIT LINK CHECKER5)SPYWAREBLASTER6) WINPATROL PLUS7) SANDBOXIE and8) A BIT OF COMMON SENSE. Dear Alvin93,You said your PC crashed in Nov.10. What did you do to recover from the crash? Repair re-install, any system restore or a clean re-install of the OS? Kindly download crystal disk info from:Kindly post the results!Regards,Sreedhav:)Hi sreedhav,after the crash I planned to backup my files and recover what's left, so I plugged out the HDD and moved some of its contents to an external HDD. I don't quite get what you mean, but when I go to system restore I see one drive labeled: 'C: (Missing)'.

I think this is due to my Windows crashed on November last year, assumption: bad sector in a folder. It repairs itself (not through System Repair) so I don't know what exactly happened. I didn't change any hardware since then, and my external HDD is always unplugged when not in use.This needs to be corrected. Go to System Protection, highlight C(Missing) listing, click Configure and turn it off.This will force the correct recovered C drive to reappear in list so you can turn it on, Configure up to 20% HD space for longer lasting restore points.Install Malwarebytes, update it, run a Full Scan.RunCheck also the number of startup programs you have starting up. I only allow AV and gadgets as others are freeloaders on your RAM/CPU and startup time.

You dont' need NVidia control panel unless you are overclocking, or audio software starting up unless you're running a theater. Similar help and support threadsThreadForumI have windows 7 pro 32 bit (I don't have SP1 yet) My updates are set to automatic. My computer, on restart, was busy installing updates. The updates have taken more than 12 hours and is still not complete. How can I stop the update from trying to install if I can't fix the problem.Windows Updates & ActivationI'm noticing my Windows 7 machine is taking a while to login. After I am done entering my password, the 'Welcome' message with the spinning circle appears and is there for at least 50 seconds. I haven't timed it but that is an estimant.

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