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Context menu delay?
I have three separate systems that use 98SE, two of them also have XP HOME on a separate bootable
hd which do not have the problem. Intermintily I have noticed a delay when right clicking a file, folder, or Icon. The delay may be from a second or two to minutes. There is nothing major running in the background, virus scan, defrag, etc, and the systems are relatively fast. I have found nothing that helps on Goggle, any ideas? It's nothing major and has been going on for a time, ***************** Thank You To reply to this email please remove the AT after the kgs in the reply to address as shown above. |
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If you search for your subject line in Google and Google Groups, you will find
enough discussion on this to keep you busy all month. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "KG" wrote in message ... I have three separate systems that use 98SE, two of them also have XP HOME on a separate bootable hd which do not have the problem. Intermintily I have noticed a delay when right clicking a file, folder, or Icon. The delay may be from a second or two to minutes. There is nothing major running in the background, virus scan, defrag, etc, and the systems are relatively fast. I have found nothing that helps on Goggle, any ideas? It's nothing major and has been going on for a time, ***************** Thank You To reply to this email please remove the AT after the kgs in the reply to address as shown above. |
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1. Remove everything from My Documents to a new folder on the desktop. If
this cures the problem, find a home for what you moved and limit how much you file in My Documents in the future. 2. If no joy with #1, what Glen said. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "KG" wrote in message ... I have three separate systems that use 98SE, two of them also have XP HOME on a separate bootable hd which do not have the problem. Intermintily I have noticed a delay when right clicking a file, folder, or Icon. The delay may be from a second or two to minutes. There is nothing major running in the background, virus scan, defrag, etc, and the systems are relatively fast. I have found nothing that helps on Goggle, any ideas? It's nothing major and has been going on for a time, ***************** Thank You To reply to this email please remove the AT after the kgs in the reply to address as shown above. |
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It was an older McAfee scan engine that did that to me, & worse. But you say you run none. Do as Badour said. If not cured, let us see what is running. Use the Edit menu of MSInfo32 to copy, & post your Running Tasks...
For investigative purposes... (1) WinTop will show as many tasks running as "START, Run, MSInfo32, Software Environment, Running Tasks", which is twice as many as Ctrl-Alt-Del. Microsoft's WinTop works in Win98, though written for Win95. It shows individual CPU & RAM usage figures & updates it's display every 2 seconds. Get WinTop from http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/d.../w95kerneltoy/ Download it into a folder of it's own. It's a single executable called "W95KRNLTOYS.EXE". When you click it, it will unzip and reveal many applications. All of them are a danger to Win98, except WinTop; delete them. You will be left with: W95KRNLTOYS.EXE WINTOP.INF WINTOP.TXT WINTOP.VXD WINTOP.EXE You R-Clk WINTOP.INF & select "Install". Click OK to the requestor stating that a disk is required. Another requestor will appear & allow you to locate the folder that has the files listed above. WinTop.exe will be copied to C:\Windows. You may go there, R-Clk it, point to "Send To" & create a shortcut on the Desktop. Click it to execute. Otherwise, "START, Run, WinTop". Yikes, what a RAM hog Explorer is-- & NetZero too! They are eating this machine alive! Explorer: 18 threads. Code Data Allocated: 15,624K 7,932K In memory: 5,888K 6,688K In use 3,522K 3,552K NetZero: 37 threads. Code Data Allocated: 7,624K 16,348K In memory: 3,272K 9,252K In use 2,488K 8,252K NetZero: 3 more threads (icon in tray). Code Data Allocated: 3,248K 4,012K In memory: 876K 1,164K In use 440K 696K (2) Do you have "System Monitor" in START... System Tools? If not, get it from "START, Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Windows Setup tab, D-Clk System Tools, check System Monitor, OK, Apply, OK". May as well take "Resource Meter", too. Now, go through the menus and at least have it display (a) Swap file in use. (b) Swap file size. (c) Swappable memory. (d) Unused physical memory. (e) Allocated memory. (f) Disk cache size. (g) Locked memory (h) Other memory (i) Kernel Processor Usage (j) Kernel Threads I must go. I'm on my way to Saskatchewan & have no time to explain what each of those are. Just watch that "in use" figure, is all, for now. -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "KG" wrote in message ... | I have three separate systems that use 98SE, two of them also have XP HOME on a separate bootable | hd which do not have the problem. Intermintily I have noticed a delay when right clicking a file, | folder, or Icon. The delay may be from a second or two to minutes. There is nothing major running | in the background, virus scan, defrag, etc, and the systems are relatively fast. I have found | nothing that helps on Goggle, any ideas? It's nothing major and has been going on for a time, | ***************** | Thank You | | To reply to this email please remove the AT | after the kgs in the reply to address as shown above. |
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PCR,
Thanks for the tip on W95KRNLTOYS.exe. Unlike KG, I was not having trouble with my context menu but downloaded it just to get a better idea of what was using my resources. To my amazement, I found that the largest user of my ancient PII 300 Mhz processor time (at idle) was the free version of PopUp Stopper -- around 15%. After exiting PopUp Stopper, much to my surprise, I found that I wasn't getting popups -- probably because of other "protective" software. Don't see any immediate positive effect of getting rid of P/U stopper, but it's nice to know that my limited processor time is not being wasted. (Win 98SE user, BTW) |
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:31:13 -0500, KG wrote:
I have three separate systems that use 98SE, two of them also have XP HOME on a separate bootable hd which do not have the problem. Intermintily I have noticed a delay when right clicking a file, folder, or Icon. The delay may be from a second or two to minutes. There is nothing major running in the background, virus scan, defrag, etc, and the systems are relatively fast. I have found nothing that helps on Goggle, any ideas? It's nothing major and has been going on for a time, ***************** Thank You Thank you for all the replies, it will keep me entertained for a while. Using Msinfo to look at background processes I find I'am not the user of this system Microsoft is, out of 24 running MS is 18 of them. Thanks again. ***************** Thank You To reply to this email please remove the AT after the kgs in the reply to address as shown above. |
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You are welcome. Yea, take those task names to...
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q137367 Startup Items http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q179365/ Startup Group http://aumha.org/a/loads.htm http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sheppard.p/startup.htm http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...s/tasklist.htm http://www.djbdesigns.com/wtvzone/startup.html http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php http://www.rickrogers.org/clean.htm http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.html http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/search.php http://www2.cajun.net/~theriots/blk/start.htm http://www2.whidbey.com/djdenham/Uncheck.htm http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html Some of those are better than others. If you find a task you want to disable... (1) If it's a running app, check it menus or R-Clk it's icon for an option to shut it down. (2) "START button, Run, MSConfig, Startup tab". Some would prefer to uninstall it, though, instead of using that tab. (3) "Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Install/Uninstall tab". -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "KG" wrote in message ... | On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:31:13 -0500, KG wrote: | | I have three separate systems that use 98SE, two of them also have XP HOME on a separate bootable | hd which do not have the problem. Intermintily I have noticed a delay when right clicking a file, | folder, or Icon. The delay may be from a second or two to minutes. There is nothing major running | in the background, virus scan, defrag, etc, and the systems are relatively fast. I have found | nothing that helps on Goggle, any ideas? It's nothing major and has been going on for a time, | ***************** | Thank You | | | Thank you for all the replies, it will keep me entertained for a while. Using Msinfo to look at | background processes I find I'am not the user of this system Microsoft is, out of 24 running MS is | 18 of them. Thanks again. | ***************** | Thank You | | To reply to this email please remove the AT | after the kgs in the reply to address as shown above. |
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