Windows 10: Right Click context menu sloooow

I am using Windows 10 Pro 64 bit OS on my self built system. It's been working great for years but recently I have notice when right clicking on any file in File Explorer or on the desktop it takes up to 30 seconds for the context menu to appear. I have read other posts about tweaking the graphic configuration or services. I have a Radeon R7 200 Series graphics card. I rolled back the most recent driver with no improvement. If I reboot it fixes the problem for a short while.
I use the right click often and this is unacceptable. I am thinking of a clean reinstall but others have stated that it doesn't fix the problem.

I'm wondering if a recent Windows update changed something that is causing this. Please help because this is a drag and I don't want to go through the reinstall unless absolutely necessary only to find out it doesn't help.

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Right Click Context Menu

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused. I will assist you with this.

Please follow the methods below and see if it helps to resolve the issue.

Method 1:

I suggest you to boot the computer to Safe Mode and check if the issue occurs or not. If not, I would suggest you to set the computer in a clean boot state and check if it helps.

Step 1:

Boot the computer to Safe Mode. In Safe Mode computer starts
with minimal set of drivers and files.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows-10/start-your-pc-in-safe-mode

Step 2:

If the issue do not occur in Safe Mode, perform a clean boot and check. Setting the system in a clean boot state will help to identify if any third party applications or startup items are causing the issue.

How to perform a clean boot in Windows

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135/en-us

Warning: After clean boot troubleshooting steps, refer to the section "How to reset the computer to start as usual after troubleshooting with clean boot"
in the provided link to return your computer to Normal startup mode.

Method 2:

If the issue persists, I suggest you to perform SFC (System File Checker) Scan from Safe Mode and check if it helps. SFC scan will scan for corrupt system files on the computer and replace them.

Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833/en-us

Hope this helps.

If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help.

 

Right Click Context Menu

Hi,

Some time ago on Windows 7 Pro, I had an issue where I was unable to open any EXE files, including the Regedit.exe command. This was a real pain at the time but eventually I was able to overcome this (I forget how exactly) but I think I followed an online
manual registry fix.

Since then, whenever I right click on an EXE file or shortcut linked to and EXE file, at the very top of the list is the following:

"%1" %" (I believe this used to say Open or Run, cant quite remember)

Immediately underneath this is the usual Run as administrator and under that is the Troubleshoot compatibility.

I thought upgrading to Windows 10 would fix this, but it hasn't. Can someone please advise how I an put this piece of text back to whatever the default is?

Many thanks,

Mark

 

Right click context menu should be almost instantaneous.
If you have a long delay, it might be due to incompatible Shell Extensions. Try:
Right Click on Desktop take long time to show up - Windows 10 Forums

In addition, delay can be a cause if your HD/SSD is corrupted (run chkdsk /r) or if you have any USB device connected with Power Option to allow PC to turn off the device (Uncheck the option from Device Manager)

If still does not fix the problem. Open Admin Command. Copy/paste then run:
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup&dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth&sfc /scannow&pause

 

Thanks for the help. I downloaded and ran the program and when I disabled all the pink highlighted extensions my context menu worked properly. My question now is: I re-enabled the extensions and each time I restarted explorer from the options menu. I'm not sure if restarting explorer by itself solves the problem temporary. Before I tried this fix I noticed that upon reboot the context menu worked properly for some time and then degraded, so I'm wondering if I have to wait after re-enabling each extension to see if the problem reappears. Hopefully this makes some sense. Your comments are greatly appreciated.

Thanks

John

 

Enable one by one is just to isolate and identify which extension is causing problem. Restart Explorer so that it will refresh its shell extension settings. You might want to perform each step slowly by enabling one then try for a while to see if it causes any problem.

It also would not hurt to run chkdsk and run DISM command to ensure that you don't have any corrupted system files.

In addition, you can also tweak the Registry to make the context menu popup faster by creating a file with .reg extension and copy/past the code below, double click to merge into the registry:
Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "MenuShowDelay"="1" [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\Control Panel\Desktop] "MenuShowDelay"="1" [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Control Panel\Desktop] "MenuShowDelay"="1" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse] "MouseHoverTime"="1" [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\Control Panel\Mouse] "MouseHoverTime"="1" [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Control Panel\Mouse] "MouseHoverTime"="1"[/quote]