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April 24th 10, 05:02 PM
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Right Click problem
All of a sudden I can not right click without getting an error that widnows
explorer was closing. I recently installed Norton 2010 - has anyone discovered a problem with Norton? How can I address this? Thanks 
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April 25th 10, 03:13 PM
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Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:02:06 -0400 from Richard :
All of a sudden I can not right click without getting an error that widnows explorer was closing. I recently installed Norton 2010 "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Well, stop doing it." Whatever you had hoped to do with Norton can be done better and cheaper in some other way. Peter Norton was a decent programmer but a genius marketer. He produced some truly good utilities way back in the 1980s, then sold them *and* his name to Symantec. Symantec is an anti-Midas: everything it touches turns to ****. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai...
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April 25th 10, 03:13 PM
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Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:02:06 -0400 from Richard :
All of a sudden I can not right click without getting an error that widnows explorer was closing. I recently installed Norton 2010 "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Well, stop doing it." Whatever you had hoped to do with Norton can be done better and cheaper in some other way. Peter Norton was a decent programmer but a genius marketer. He produced some truly good utilities way back in the 1980s, then sold them *and* his name to Symantec. Symantec is an anti-Midas: everything it touches turns to ****. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai...
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April 25th 10, 08:03 PM
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On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:13:54 -0400, Stan Brown
wrote: Peter Norton was a decent programmer but a genius marketer. He produced some truly good utilities way back in the 1980s, then sold them *and* his name to Symantec. Symantec is an anti-Midas: everything it touches turns to ****. Alas, how you describe Symantec is very close to true these days. But it wasn't always the case. They used to put out good software. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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April 25th 10, 08:03 PM
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On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:13:54 -0400, Stan Brown
wrote: Peter Norton was a decent programmer but a genius marketer. He produced some truly good utilities way back in the 1980s, then sold them *and* his name to Symantec. Symantec is an anti-Midas: everything it touches turns to ****. Alas, how you describe Symantec is very close to true these days. But it wasn't always the case. They used to put out good software. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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April 25th 10, 08:57 PM
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Right Click problem
"Richard" wrote in message
... All of a sudden I can not right click without getting an error that widnows explorer was closing. I recently installed Norton 2010 - has anyone discovered a problem with Norton? How can I address this? This behaviour is often (usually) due to a bad Shell Extension that came with a recent installation...the shell extensions are what give you the right-click context menu entries. Download and install ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html Run it, and use it to disable shell extensions till you find which is causing the problem. Since you recently installed a Norton product, test them first. Once you find which is the troublemaker, you can try uninstalling/reinstalling the program, or just leave that shell extension disabled. I personally don't let any Norton / Symantec apps near my systems, so if it were my machine I'd uninstall Norton 2010 before I even troubleshot. Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 A+ http://dts-l.net/
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April 25th 10, 08:57 PM
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Right Click problem
"Richard" wrote in message
... All of a sudden I can not right click without getting an error that widnows explorer was closing. I recently installed Norton 2010 - has anyone discovered a problem with Norton? How can I address this? This behaviour is often (usually) due to a bad Shell Extension that came with a recent installation...the shell extensions are what give you the right-click context menu entries. Download and install ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html Run it, and use it to disable shell extensions till you find which is causing the problem. Since you recently installed a Norton product, test them first. Once you find which is the troublemaker, you can try uninstalling/reinstalling the program, or just leave that shell extension disabled. I personally don't let any Norton / Symantec apps near my systems, so if it were my machine I'd uninstall Norton 2010 before I even troubleshot. Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 A+ http://dts-l.net/
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