[enronian]

For some reason whenever I right click a first time after I start windows or have been doing something else it is sooooo slow (ie 10-20 seconds for menu to pop up) and the same goes for opening up some other menus. Does anyone know what could be causing this and how I could fix this? Thanks

PS running Windows Defender and Symantec Antivirus which I assume might be causing the issues if you know how to adjust it to better my performance that would be awesome.

[Hughv]

I'd assume some other process or application is using a most of your resources.
Start with Task Manager and see if you can identify the culprit.
How much memory do you have, and how much free HD space?

[enronian]

currently 2 gigs RAM and 180 gigs of HDD space open.

Usually the highest mem usage processes are:

firefox (yay memory leaks)
RTVscan.exe
explorer.exe
svchost.exe
ehrecvr.exe

in that order, although firefox isn't present at windows startup.

[Hughv]

RTV and ehrecvr are both Symantec processes, and I am not a fan.
Turn it off or uninstall it and see if you don't get an improvement.

[enronian]

Any recommendations on an antivirus / security suite to use in its place?

[Hughv]

I use AVG Free, but Avast is OK too.

[Tufenuf]

enronian, The problem may be caused by a bad context menu handler. Follow the instructions under "Method 2 - Using ShellExView to determine the Context-menu causing the problem" at the link below.

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

Tufenuf

[enronian]

Originally Posted by Tufenuf

enronian, The problem may be caused by a bad context menu handler. Follow the instructions under "Method 2 - Using ShellExView to determine the Context-menu causing the problem" at the link below.

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

Tufenuf

Thanks much, that shellxview program helped out speeds a ton

[Tufenuf]

Originally Posted by enronian

Thanks much, that shellxview program helped out speeds a ton

enronian, Glad to see that it helped & Thanks for posting back to let us know.

Tufenuf