Speed of Right Click Menu

[Ulfhednar]

I am noticing some variations in the speed of right click menu opening.
Some of the time it is quite quick or instant.  Sometimes it waits for a second+ before the dialog opens.
I assume this is Win7 shell related but wanted to check. 
BTW the OS is on an SSD so I expect things to be quicker in general. 
Maybe I can alter a Win7 setting to get better response overall?

[Mathias (Author)]

If you run Commander styled setup. You have the Context Menu on RightAndHold on the right button.. Here button need to be pressed for 1 sec.
But you also have it on Double click of right button..Then it is called directly.
For Explorer Styled when ContextMenu is on right button down. then it is called directly.

But depending on what kind of Shell Extension you have installed it can take some time to build the popup menu.
All registered Shell extensions you have installed are going to be called and they do all kind of work to add items to the menu,  Every time it is shown.
This is out of the control of MC. And the speed depends on what the shell extensions are doing. MC is not involved in that process at all. Windows handles all the loading and calling of the shell extensions.

ShellEx View is a tool by Nir Sofer where you can list all your shell extension and enable/disable they easily.

[Ulfhednar]

Thanks Mathias.
I don't use the NC type interface.
It has been erratic - sometimes quick, sometimes slow. 
Nirsoft has some handy tools.  Maybe I can isolate something.  Will give it a shot.   

[ice-man]

I had some similar issue on a work computer.
For me it was some crap Symantec Enterprise antivirus thing that had a shell extension that did some weird stuff.. I disable that.

If it take a really long time. I guess that if you manage to take a dump file of MultiCommander while it is waiting for the context menu to be shown, Mathias might be able to see what it does.

See doc page about how to Create dump of hang
This might not be a real hang. But taking the dump is the same thing.
As long as the dump is creating during the wait state.

[Mathias (Author)]

Yes of course, Send me the dump and I can take a look.

It should be possible to see if it is one of the modules that are slow.
if it is some other general issue around shell extensions it might not be possible. Then more advanced tools might be needed