Menus Acting Strange

[Tony Armalis]

This just started in the last couple of months. When I right click the start button, instead of the menus dropping down, I get maybe 5 items. If I hover the mouse and start moving down then one by one they start appearing. I was getting this in some programs also. I performed a scannow and it said no files were corrupt. I then restarted and everything was fine. A few days later this same behavior started again.

Any ideas on correcting this for once & for all?

Thanks

 

[Regedit32]

Hi Tony,

Welcome to the Forum.

I'm not entirely sure about the Power Menu (Windows Key + X, or right-clicking Start), but as you mentioned this has happened with other programs too, then it is plausible a shell extension which is how an installed program adds itself to your right-click Context menu, may be the culprit.

You can use a tool developed by Nirsoft to see what shell extensions you have, and disable all of them, then one by one enable them to test whether when one is enabled whether the lag in population of the menu appear. If it does then you simply disable that shell extension for now, problem sorted.

There Is a blog on this here: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/fix-for-very-slow-or-hang-when-right-click-on-a-file-or-folder/ that makes a better explanation on the issue.

Nirsoft's website and link to the Shexview tool is: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html


So far as the right-clicking on Start and the power menu taking time to load. Do you have Cortana enabled at all?

Cortana has for some Users been buggy and its SearchUI.exe has caused symptoms like you describe in the past.

The location of this SearchUI.exe is here: C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy

Some Users renamed the SearchUI.exe to work around this issue, as once renamed Windows cannot find it.

However, in Windows 10 Creator, you need to change permissions to be able to rename it, as its owned by the SYSTEM's TrustedInstaller.

Others in the Forum may know more on this issue, and hopefully will reply to your post too.


Regards,

Regedit32

 

[Tony Armalis]

Thanks. It hasn't happened since the last restart when I wrote this. I will save this and if it happens again I will take the actions outlined.