<p>One of the reason Windows systems seem to get slower over time is because Microsoft has provided so many places to 'hook into' Windows, and so many developers have done a bad job of doing this. </p> <p>My wife's computer was taking a long time - over a minute - to bring up a context menu when she'd right-click on a file in the Explorer. Using <a href=http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/slowrightclick.htm>this tool</a>, I discovered that it was the RealPlayer context menu handler that was taking all the time. Disabled it, and the context menu is snappy again.</p>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:07 GMT