I'm going crazy with the same IE6 problem along with an extremely slow right-click response on the Windows XP Pro desktop....I've tried every search imaginable on Google and no one has the answer. The right click problem seems to clear up if i disconnect my ethernet cable, but then I'd have no internet access...
Frustrating problem because I have a P4 3.4 machine with 1G RAM...
But what I'm finding out is a possible problem with network latency. I have a small 2 PC network that connects to the internet via a Linksys router/DSL modem. If I disconnect the ethernet cable from the problem PC, then the right-click problem disappears. I assumed that the same right-click latency was also causing the Internet Explorer problems described in the first post of this thread. I checked to make sure that the problem PC had the same network settings as the one that runs fine...and it did. So that wasn't the problem, but after doing that I reconnected the problem PC and found that not only was the right-click problem gone but IE ran perfectly!
So there is something fishy in the networking side of things...I'll keep experimenting and report back, but if anyone reading this has a fix or their own take on what is happening, please post to this thread.
OK...I solved the problem and I hope this info helps everyone else as well.
As mentioned in my previous post, the problem had to have it's roots in the network/ethernet section because when the PC was disconnected from the network it performed fine. I had a feeling that the IE slowness problem was also connected...
A post on a newsgroup made me try something. It suggested that an obsolete mapped drive might be the problem, so I searched the registry using regedit for a possible reference to drive E:\\ and F:\\ , the next two drive letters above my installed ones. I came up with nothing.
Then I tried a search for just \\. I got a lot of hits on that one and waded through them all (using find next in regedit). I finally came across a reference to a program on my other networked computer (EditPlus, an HTML editor) in regedit's OpenWithList folder. I had never installed that program on my current PC, yet there was a reference to it pointing to my other PC. Since a right-click opens a context menu that includes "Open With..." I thought I may be on to something. Was Windows looking for this program to populate it's "Open With..." menu every time I right clicked?
Next, I searched in regedit for every instance of EditPlus. I found several and made them all Favorites in regedit. Then I quit regedit and created a System Restore point just to be on the safe side. I restarted regedit, clicked on each EditPlus favorite and deleted each folder it pointed to in turn.
Voila! It worked! Right clicks are super speedy now AND the slowness in IE is gone as well. I just knew they had to be related somehow....
PaulVia
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August 7th, 2004 05:00
I'm going crazy with the same IE6 problem along with an extremely slow right-click response on the Windows XP Pro desktop....I've tried every search imaginable on Google and no one has the answer. The right click problem seems to clear up if i disconnect my ethernet cable, but then I'd have no internet access...
Frustrating problem because I have a P4 3.4 machine with 1G RAM...
Any ideas would be appreciated...
Thanks...
Paul
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August 7th, 2004 16:00
PaulVia
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August 7th, 2004 23:00
Thanks for that link...
But what I'm finding out is a possible problem with network latency. I have a small 2 PC network that connects to the internet via a Linksys router/DSL modem. If I disconnect the ethernet cable from the problem PC, then the right-click problem disappears. I assumed that the same right-click latency was also causing the Internet Explorer problems described in the first post of this thread. I checked to make sure that the problem PC had the same network settings as the one that runs fine...and it did. So that wasn't the problem, but after doing that I reconnected the problem PC and found that not only was the right-click problem gone but IE ran perfectly!
So there is something fishy in the networking side of things...I'll keep experimenting and report back, but if anyone reading this has a fix or their own take on what is happening, please post to this thread.
Thanks everyone...
Paul
PaulVia
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August 10th, 2004 05:00
OK...I solved the problem and I hope this info helps everyone else as well.
As mentioned in my previous post, the problem had to have it's roots in the network/ethernet section because when the PC was disconnected from the network it performed fine. I had a feeling that the IE slowness problem was also connected...
A post on a newsgroup made me try something. It suggested that an obsolete mapped drive might be the problem, so I searched the registry using regedit for a possible reference to drive E:\\ and F:\\ , the next two drive letters above my installed ones. I came up with nothing.
Then I tried a search for just \\. I got a lot of hits on that one and waded through them all (using find next in regedit). I finally came across a reference to a program on my other networked computer (EditPlus, an HTML editor) in regedit's OpenWithList folder. I had never installed that program on my current PC, yet there was a reference to it pointing to my other PC. Since a right-click opens a context menu that includes "Open With..." I thought I may be on to something. Was Windows looking for this program to populate it's "Open With..." menu every time I right clicked?
Next, I searched in regedit for every instance of EditPlus. I found several and made them all Favorites in regedit. Then I quit regedit and created a System Restore point just to be on the safe side. I restarted regedit, clicked on each EditPlus favorite and deleted each folder it pointed to in turn.
Voila! It worked! Right clicks are super speedy now AND the slowness in IE is gone as well. I just knew they had to be related somehow....
Hope this helps!
Paul