Can't access drop down right-click menu...

[shulse]

While on my desktop I can't access the right click drop down menu. When I right click on an icon it highlights itself but won't offer any drop down functions.

While viewing web pages and in other programs, the right click drop down menu works fine.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

[andyms18a]

hi shulse
can you tell us your op sys win2000 or xp home or pro all so have you all wayes had this prob or did you install somthing and the prob started

[shulse]

Originally posted by andyms18a hi shulse can you tell us your op sys win2000 or xp home or pro all so have you all wayes had this prob or did you install somthing and the prob started

I am XP Home. Actually I had the answer to this provided on another forum. It turns out I had a wrong value in one of my registry keys...

""Look if there is a value NoViewContextMenu in this registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mic
rosoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Policies\Explorer""

I had to change the value from 1 to 0 and that solved the problem. Thanks for your response.