MS confirms WinXP rightclick issue
Microsoft says in the note that when you right click a folder using Windows Explorer, the CPU usage flies up to 100% when the shortcut menu is displayed.
That means any file copy operation "may appear to stop responding", "network connection speed may significantly decrease", and streaming operations, like listening to music, can become distorted. I suppose its disappointing to see that a fix is in fact disabling (native) features but we can only hope this is solved in SP2 or a patch. Read more for the workaround.
View: Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 819101
View: Explorer 100% utilization in Windows XP (26 April 2003)
News source: The Inquirer and neowin
It's happen to me so many times that at the end I was thinking this is normal.
Happy if this could be fixe soon.