"My Computer" lockup after update

An automatice update was recently downloaded which required a restart of my
computer. Since then, whenever I click on the "My Computer" icon, my whole
system locks up and I must do a hard boot. This has happened on all
computers in my office (5) except one, which does not allow the automatice
updates.

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:20:05 -0800, kssjd5 <> wrote:

>An automatice update was recently downloaded which required a restart of my
>computer. Since then, whenever I click on the "My Computer" icon, my whole
>system locks up and I must do a hard boot. This has happened on all
>computers in my office (5) except one, which does not allow the automatice
>updates.

I've seen that happen when there is an error in one of the right-click context menu items.

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

ShellExView v1.13 - Shell Extensions Manager
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

ContextEdit, Version 1.1
ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/utilfile/cnxtedit.zip
ftp://ftp.externet.hu/.lib/disk5/pub...e/cnxtedit.zip
ftp://ftp.externet.hu/.lib/disk5/sac...e/cnxtedit.zip
ftp://ftp.externet.hu/pub/mirror/sac...e/cnxtedit.zip
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/msdos/...e/cnxtedit.zip

Actually, this happens after just a regular double click.

"Unk" wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:20:05 -0800, kssjd5 <> wrote:
>
> >An automatice update was recently downloaded which required a restart of my
> >computer. Since then, whenever I click on the "My Computer" icon, my whole
> >system locks up and I must do a hard boot. This has happened on all
> >computers in my office (5) except one, which does not allow the automatice
> >updates.
>
> I've seen that happen when there is an error in one of the right-click context menu items.
>
> Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm
>
> ShellExView v1.13 - Shell Extensions Manager
> http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
>
> ContextEdit, Version 1.1
> ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/utilfile/cnxtedit.zip
> ftp://ftp.externet.hu/.lib/disk5/pub...e/cnxtedit.zip
> ftp://ftp.externet.hu/.lib/disk5/sac...e/cnxtedit.zip
> ftp://ftp.externet.hu/pub/mirror/sac...e/cnxtedit.zip
> ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/msdos/...e/cnxtedit.zip
>
>
>

"kssjd5" <> wrote in message
news:B43D173E-230E-4BED-B3EA-...
> Actually, this happens after just a regular double click.


Right-click on the item then and see what is bolded in the resulting menu.
Doubleclicking is equivalent to selecting and choosing the bolded item.


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>
> "Unk" wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:20:05 -0800, kssjd5 <> wrote:
>>
>> >An automatice update was recently downloaded which required a restart of my
>> >computer. Since then, whenever I click on the "My Computer" icon, my whole
>> >system locks up and I must do a hard boot. This has happened on all
>> >computers in my office (5) except one, which does not allow the automatice
>> >updates.
>>
>> I've seen that happen when there is an error in one of the right-click context menu items.
>>
>> Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers
>> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm
>>
>> ShellExView v1.13 - Shell Extensions Manager
>> http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
>>
>> ContextEdit, Version 1.1
>> ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/utilfile/cnxtedit.zip
>> ftp://ftp.externet.hu/.lib/disk5/pub...e/cnxtedit.zip
>> ftp://ftp.externet.hu/.lib/disk5/sac...e/cnxtedit.zip
>> ftp://ftp.externet.hu/pub/mirror/sac...e/cnxtedit.zip
>> ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/msdos/...e/cnxtedit.zip
>>
>>
>>