IE 5.5 and Win 2000 - Right Click Delay

[TmanZ]

When I right click anywhere in the browser window (IE 5.5/SP2), the menu takes about 3 seconds to pop up. Right clicking in any other application, the window pops up immediately.

Any suggestions?

I'm running Win 2000 Professional, SP3

 

[revnice]

Dude!

Just so you know you ain't crazy, I've seen that too - it happens on my machine at work but not on my machine at home. The principal difference is networking stuff at the office that I don't have at home.

I was about to complain when it improved. The only reason I can offer is that defragging made a necessary component available more quickly but that's all I was ever able to come up with.

The right click menu appears instantly when you're not on the web right?

rev

 

[TmanZ]

It happens when I'm using IE. Since my computer is always on the network (work), I can't test it otherwise. But, right-clicking in any other application works instantly. A friend of mine said he read about this somewhere and found a registry hack to fix it, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere.

 

[Stuartp]

I had this problem too, took ages to find the answer. As far as I remember I used a program available here

http://www.bluestarsoftware.de/html/english/index.htm

to sort it out. It worked for me.

Good Luck.

Stuart

 

[TmanZ]

I'm a little wary of using a program to fix the issue. I'll take a look at it, but I'd really like to know what the registry fix is for it.

I do appreciate the help though and have d/l'ed the program in case I can't do it any other way.

 

[TmanZ]

If it helps anyone else out, I did find what registry values are fixed.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage

This key has a large number of blank values. These values are moved to a new folder (using MIE55SpeedUp.exe from BlueStarSoftware.de - Thanks StuartP) which dramatically speeds up the right click process.