[tweak] Windows XP right click is a CPU hog, how to fix this

Software firm Microsoft quietly published a report on its support pages last week confirming that a right click on files using Windows Explorer in XP does gnash away eating up at your CPU time.

But there's a relatively easy way to stop it doing that.

Microsoft says in the note that when you right click a folder using Windows Explorer, the CPU usage flies up to 100% when the shortcut menu is displayed.

That means any file copy operation "may appear to stop responding", "network connection speed may significantly decrease", and streaming operations, like listening to music, can become distorted.

You get round the problem by turning off the "transition effects" for menus and tool tips, or you left click the folder you want before you right click it.

Turn off the transition effects for menus and ToolTips. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. In Control Panel, double-click Display.
3. In the Display Properties dialog box, click the Appearance tab.
4. On the Appearance tab, click Effects.
5. In the Effects dialog box, click to clear the Use the following transition effect for menus and tooltips check box, and then click OK two times.

The problem occurs in all versions of Widnows XP including bug fixes SP1 and SP1a.

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I think after the first direction you need to click on Appearance and Themes, then click on Display.

Or just right click the desktop and go to properties.

That's if your in Catagory view, in Classic view you can do it the way I described it.

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Ok thats cool, Thanks for the tip, It does go faster now.

thx! it helped a lil.

thanks for that tip, right clicks go a lot faster now

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