HI!
After reading through several threads on EE for this, just giving one more experienced solution for this right-click extremely slow problem, as this one wasn't coming up on any. Anyway, I did check several of the suggested hints, but they didn't help too much, maybe the already known also generally for performance helpful Defrag hint was the only helping somehow.
On a Celeron2400/128kB/768MB machine there was active an old Anti-virus software with no updates since two years or so, so, also the software itself had got fatally badly outdated in relation to the 100's subsequent Windows XP updates ...
This did lead to the situation, that it slowed the right-click phenomenally to a 1-2-3-4 mins waits, by checking upon all the right-clicks all the files in the folder before letting the menu to open! As a side effect during this and on other situations, too, it also blocked all other activity on the machine running itself on 95-98% processor usage!
After removal of this software this 7 year old machine is running about like as it was "younger", OK, maybe it do not anymore have power for any too heavy running software, mainly probably due to the minor 128kB L2 cache ...
Best regards,
Pete V.
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