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annoying: delay/spinning wheel when using contextual menu "open"
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Oct 7, 2003, 02:34 AM
 
hey all,

i've always been annoyed at this, and i don't know why it happens. whenever i mouse over a graphics file (psd, pdf, jpg, whatever), and i right-click to bring up the contextual menu, if i move the mouse down through the menu, it will always hang on the "Open", for 3-5 seconds, and it sounds like my HD is reading or writing something. i mean, it's kinda annoying, and it never fails: i right click, and go down the menu items; if the cursor goes over the "Open", i get the delay. and this only happens with graphics files.

does anyone know what's going on here?


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Judge_Fire
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Oct 7, 2003, 03:31 AM
 
Originally posted by tr:
hey all,

does anyone know what's going on here?


tr
It's the 'Open with...' submenu attempting to figure out which app suits the file in question.

This should be faster the second time.

J
     
   
 
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