Windows 10: Right Click on Desktop Context Menu take a long time to show up

Darkvelvet · Aug 24, 2015

I'm not sure about the all-in-one drives like WD My Cloud, but my NAS setup is a box that I supplied the drives for. In my case, WD Red NAS drives. I have five different drives mapped to the NAS, and the right-click context menu pops up quickly.

I just ran a quick test using a Toshiba USB3 HDD, and I noticed no slow down in the context menu. I think the problem may lie somewhere other than the USB drive. Real frustrating, though, since your system is pretty clean. I'll keep digging and let you know if I find anything.
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I don't know why it doesn't do it on your PC, but did a quick Google on this Drive and it show that there a built-in Firmware that put it to sleep when idles caused it from overheating.

But using the NoSleepHD indeed solved the problem, but I'm a bit worried the long term effect of it to caused it to overheat and making it spin 24/7 will shorten the life on the Drive.

Thanks anyway for the solution. I may just use the NoSleepHD for awhile or just have to live with the slow ness of opening Contextual Menu and Recycle Bin.

trashcanbin10 · Jul 22, 2016

Hey Darkvelvet,
I had the exact same issue as you did. Fortunately, I was able to fix it, and here's how I did it.

Hold down the Windows Key and R. This will open up the "run" dialogue box.
It looks like this: Attachment 32673

Type the following in the box: regedit
Click "Ok" or press the "Enter" key.
This will open the registry editor.
Attachment 32674

Once open, navigate through the folders using this path:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
Once there, make sure you click on the drop-down arrow. You'll see a few folders.
It should look something like this:Attachment 32672

You should find a folder with the name of the graphics driver, in your case, NVidia.

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE YOU MUST BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY JUST IN CASE
Click File\Export
Name the file anything and save it anywhere you'll remember.
If anything goes wrong, you can double-click this file and it will restore the registry to its previous state.

Now lets get back to the NVidia folder.
Delete it.
To make the full change it may require a PC restart.
I hope this helps! *Smile
-Tey Tey
And by the way, Welcome to the Ten Forums!
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Bloody hell, this actually works, even without restart.

I know I'm bumping an old thread, I just wanted to confirm this worked for my Win 10 SL x64. I deleted 3 keys, 1 for NVIDIA, 2 for INTEL HD (as I'm using Dual GPU laptop).

Deleting NVIDIA's alone didn't work, so I went ahead and nuked the other two keys (Intel). It works....

simrick · Jul 22, 2016

Bloody hell, this actually works, even without restart.

I know I'm bumping an old thread, I just wanted to confirm this worked for my Win 10 SL x64. I deleted 3 keys, 1 for NVIDIA, 2 for INTEL HD (as I'm using Dual GPU laptop).

Deleting NVIDIA's alone didn't work, so I went ahead and nuked the other two keys (Intel). It works....
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Glad it worked for you too! Thanks for posting. *Smile

panos85chem · Oct 15, 2016

Hi everyone, I have tried playing with Shellexview, in order to fix a similar problem. It didn't work! But my problem is that I can not re-enable the disabled Shell Extensions. I have restarted the laptop, no change. For example, I disabled the WinRAR extensions and now I can not re-enable them. I tried reinstalling the software, it didn't work as well. If anyone has any ideas, I would be really grateful.

lazyshetty · Nov 21, 2016

Hey Darkvelvet,
I had the exact same issue as you did. Fortunately, I was able to fix it, and here's how I did it.

Hold down the Windows Key and R. This will open up the "run" dialogue box.
It looks like this: Attachment 32673

Type the following in the box: regedit
Click "Ok" or press the "Enter" key.
This will open the registry editor.
Attachment 32674

Once open, navigate through the folders using this path:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
Once there, make sure you click on the drop-down arrow. You'll see a few folders.
It should look something like this:Attachment 32672

You should find a folder with the name of the graphics driver, in your case, NVidia.

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE YOU MUST BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY JUST IN CASE
Click File\Export
Name the file anything and save it anywhere you'll remember.
If anything goes wrong, you can double-click this file and it will restore the registry to its previous state.

Now lets get back to the NVidia folder.
Delete it.
To make the full change it may require a PC restart.
I hope this helps! *Smile
-Tey Tey
And by the way, Welcome to the Ten Forums!
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Hey Tey tey,

TFTS, this worked with me, my laptop was taking around 4-5 sec to just show the right click menu on desktop and also it use to take time to show explorer window, but now, for the first time, it will take nearly 2 sec but then, it works fine,.. but any app being launched for the first time in the session, will cost me 4-5 sec.. is there any fix for this..??

i'm on Dell Inspiron 3542 with 4gb ddr3l ram..

Omidz 10 · Nov 22, 2016

Thanks popeye
Step 5 in that post will not work in Windows 10 so here's an update.
Please download: ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows

This program does not require installation, just right click and run as Administrator

From the menu, click on Options then click on Filter by Extension Type and select Context Menu Also put a check marks on the items as shown below.

Attachment 33279

On the list are the Shell Extensions with pink background, installed by the third party programs

Hold down SHIFT Key, click on first item & then on last item to select ALL then click on the red button on top left corner to disable all.

CTRL+ALT+DELETE->Task Manager->File->Run New Task and type explorer->OK

Now try to right click on desktop to see if it fixes your problem. If it does then start to enable one by one and repeat step 5 until the problem occurs again, that's the offending extension.

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Thanks man It worked for me and it was intel extension for graphic driver. Thanks a lot

igor6388 · Dec 16, 2016

Thank you guys so much ! I was almost about to reinstall my Windows

Remian8985 · Jan 28, 2017

Thanks popeye
Step 5 in that post will not work in Windows 10 so here's an update.
Please download: ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows

This program does not require installation, just right click and run as Administrator

From the menu, click on Options then click on Filter by Extension Type and select Context Menu Also put a check marks on the items as shown below.

Attachment 33279

On the list are the Shell Extensions with pink background, installed by the third party programs

Hold down SHIFT Key, click on first item & then on last item to select ALL then click on the red button on top left corner to disable all.

CTRL+ALT+DELETE->Task Manager->File->Run New Task and type explorer->OK

Now try to right click on desktop to see if it fixes your problem. If it does then start to enable one by one and repeat step 5 until the problem occurs again, that's the offending extension.

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This worked!! Thank you very much *Smile *Smile

Synaptics Control Panel seems to be the offending extension for me. Any downside for disabling it?

topgundcp · Jan 28, 2017

@Remian8985

Synaptics Control Panel seems to be the offending extension for me. Any downside for disabling it?
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No, I think you can also access it via control panel. Another extension I saw from the list is NVIDIA control panel, this extension also causes problem so keep an eye on it.

Xogroroth · Apr 1, 2017

I5 6600K
16GB Ram
256GB SSD Corsair
12TB HDD (4x3TB WD Green)
CoolerMaster V650W
Windows 10 Professional x64 1607
and a TON on software.

Same issue, menu takes forever in latest build to display.
And no clue how to bloody fix this issue, it's driving me insane, since I need this menu a LOT...

Drivers are latest version, tried disable any NVidia part both in Register and in NVidia Control Panel, but no matter what I do, the system's menu is frikken slow.
In Explorer it works normal ON FOLDERS, but once I start to manage my files... that's where things go awkward.
On my desktop it's not even working, it flashes for 1/8th a second and it is gone again...

The further we venture into this Windows 10 farce, the more that starts to fail.
They should have NEVER left Win 7!
Though, Explorer always had serious issues with large data handling....
Even in W7Ult x64. *Sad

Maybe they should build a modern Norton Commander, now THAT was a great system tool.

timh0722 · Apr 4, 2018

I started having this problem a few months ago. I tried a lot of things but finally used ccleaner to clean the register. I had not done in quite a while so a lot of stuff appeared. Cleared it out and things are back to normal.

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