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Blerk Moderator 29 Nov 2002 09:29:49 48,222 posts
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Hello folks,

Been "out of touch" for a couple of days while I changed my work machine for a 'flash new one'. However, now I've got a weird problem. Everything seems to be much bigger, better, faster, etc. apart from one thing:

The right-click menu on Internet Explorer is taking AGES to come up. Anyone got any ideas what might be causing that? It's got my favourite 'open in new window' command in it. :-(

Deleted user 29 November 2002 09:43:00

Blerk wrote:
The right-click menu on Internet Explorer is taking AGES to come up. Anyone got any ideas what might be causing that?

Whoo, dificult one... could be "anything". I'd do a search on Microsofts Knowledge Base site and if that fails, install the newest IE service pack. That includes the risk of new software failures though

Blerk Moderator 29 Nov 2002 10:23:52 48,222 posts
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Well, here's the solution - I found it on Usenet of all places. Useful information on Usenet? Unheard of!

If you use McAfee virusscan, then the slow-right click is a known problem.

McAfee have a fix as follows:-

Open Regedit and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWARE
NETWORK ASSOCIATES
TVD
SHARED COMPONENTS
ON ACCESS SCANNER
McSHIELD
CONFIGURATION

Double-click on the ScannerThreadTimeout and change the value to eight f 's
(ffffffff)

Close and restart VShield.

And it works! Someone had kindly installed VShield for me when they plopped the operating system on. The bastards.

ssuellid 29 Nov 2002 14:15:37 19,142 posts
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Blerk, your lucky - wait until they roll out the next part of the Mcafee suite - ePolicy Orchestrator Agent. The bastard thing allows your IT department to set your PCs security policy so that you cannot kill the virus scanner or change its settings.

dailynail.co.uk 29 Nov 2002 15:36:46 83 posts
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Or buy a Mac and you don't have a right button...

MetalDog 29 Nov 2002 15:53:17 24,076 posts
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If you hold down l-ctrl & l-shift when you l-click on a link, it will spawn a new browser.

eviltobz 29 Nov 2002 15:55:08 2,511 posts
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not to be picky, but you only need to hold shift (either one) and left click. but it just aint the same.

edit - unless you are talking about macs, my shift thing is only tested on windows

Edited by eviltobz at 15:56:21 29-11-2002

MetalDog 29 Nov 2002 16:18:49 24,076 posts
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Ah, you're right.
I've been holding a surplus button down all this time. Fule.

Khab 29 Nov 2002 16:41:15 6,583 posts
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Interesting! I had a mate who had this problem for AGES, he finally did a re-install of Windows to get rid of it, after months of suffering.

Gokzilla 29 Nov 2006 21:21:10 2,414 posts
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Ich hatte das Gl�ck ,Borat in englisch im Kino zu sehen.
Ich muss gestehen das ich an manchen Stellen, fast in die Hose gemacht habe vor lachen.
Aber die Szene wo er und der dicke Azamad nackt ringen, und in der 69 Stellung eine weile verweilen, fand ich einfach nur ekelhaft.

otto Moderator 28 May 2007 11:16:19 49,322 posts
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McAfee - guaranteed to wreck your computer more efficiently than any virus for only 70 quid