Context menu appearing.

[harryray2]

I'm not sure if this has to do with Everything or my system, but after exiting Everything and restarting, the context menu takes a very long time on appearing the first time,
After that it comes up straight away.

[void]

This can occur if you are running Everything as an administrator.

Please try running Everything as a standard user:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the General tab on the left.
• Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything
• Uncheck Run as administrator.
• Check Everything Service. (Please make sure this is tick-checked and not square-checked)
• Click OK.
• Exit Everything (right click the Everything tray icon and click Exit).
• Restart Everything.

Please try temporarily disabling context menu shell extensions with ShellExView:
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Does the slow context menu occur after disabling all context menu shell extensions?
Try enabling one at a time to find the problem shell extension.

[harryray2]

Thanks, I'm not running Everything as admin, I use the service.

I'll try disabling one at a time but there are quite a few entries.

It only seems to happen each time once when restarting Everything after exiting, after that it's fine.

[harryray2]

I'm still getting this problem after disabling various context menu items. I also had this problem with 1.4 although with 1.4 it happened each time I opened the context menu whereas with 1.5 it only happens the first time.

[void]

How many results are you right clicking?
1 result should be instant, but 1000 results may take ~1 second.

Does the issue occur if you disable context_menu_shell_extensions in Everything:

• In Everything, type in the following search and press ENTER:
  /context_menu_shell_extensions=0
• If successful, context_menu_shell_extensions=0 is shown in the status bar for few seconds.
  (the default is /context_menu_shell_extension=1)
• Restart Everything (File -> Exit)

Do you have millions of files on your Desktop?
This can cause slowdowns with ParseDisplayName.

[harryray2]

It happens if I highlight one or several. If I just highlight a few it takes 30-45 secs to appear, if I highlight 300,000 it freezes the system with lots of disk thrashing.

Setting to /context_menu_shell_extensions=0 solves it when selecting a few files and takes about 15-30secs when choosing 300,000 files but doesn't freeze.

[harryray2]

In total, there's less than 400,000 files on the desktop...

[void]

Please try moving all files directly on the desktop to another folder and see if the issue persists.

(Take a screenshot of your Desktop if your icon layout is important)

[harryray2]

Apologies, I meant 400,000 on my PC (it was early in the morning).

I keep the desktop pretty clear of files, but I have about 5 folders, with sub-folders on the desktop containing around 80,000 files.
I know that keeping files directly on the desktop uses more memory, but does that also apply to folders on the desktop containing multiple files?

Btw, I'm using Win7.

[void]

80K files should be OK.

The issue only occurs when the files/folders are directly on the desktop.

All shell items are parsed from the desktop.
Having millions of files/folders directly on the desktop can make this slow.



If disabling context_menu_shell_extensions in Everything helps, this indicates an issue with a shell extension.