Context menu really slow appearing (when right-clicking)

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Context menu really slow appearing (when right-clicking)

In the past few days, my computer has been REALLY slow in pulling up context menus when I right click. It seems to be OK after the initial right-click, but this is happening in every application. When I right-clicked on the Desktop, it took about 15 seconds to think before showing the menu. I tried the same thing in various apps, like Safari, Apple Mail, and Transmit, and they were all slow in showing the context menu.

Any ideas on what is causing the slow down?

400 MHz Gigabit G4 PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.4.3), 1088 MB RAM, JBL Creature, 15" Apple Display

Posted on May 24, 2006 7:56 AM

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Answer 1

May 24, 2006 8:14 AM in response to Chad Armstrong

I found an article on macosxhints.com, that gave these instructions to remove a plugin.

sudo mkdir /System/Library/Contextual\ Menu\ Items\ \(disabled\); \
sudo mv /System/Library/Contextual\ Menu\ Items/FolderActionsMenu.plugin \
/System/Library/Contextual\ Menu\ Items\ \(disabled\); \
sudo killall Finder

The article name is A fix for a very slow contextual menu in the Finder.

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Answer 2

May 24, 2006 9:03 AM in response to Chad Armstrong

It seems that the problem was a Contextual Menu plug-in, and not the FolderActionsMenu.plugin. I removed plug-ins for Norton Anti-Virus and Portfolio, and things are working smoothly again. Considering that I haven't updated Portfolio, but NAV did update over the weekend, I'm guessing that the problem might be related to Norton Anti-Virus.

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