Windows slow context menu

[RegulaSmegula]

So, I have a bit of a question for the more experienced in Windows among us. I have worked with Windows for a long time and am definitely not inexperienced but this issue has me stumped.

 

I am currently running the windows 11 insider preview build on my Lenovo Legion 5 pro which has both an rtx 3070 and integrated Vega graphics on the rysen 7 5800h. Before this I had Windows 10 pro installed and on that I was experiencing the same issues. (This laptop came without an OS)

 

Whenever I right click, no matter if it's on the desktop or in file explorer, to see a context menu there is an up to 5 second wait where Windows shows me the little loading icon on my cursor.

I would love any help I can get.

 

[edit]

I had my suspicions and turns out i was right. This machine came with no operating system so i had to install it myself. Once booting into windows it started downloading drivers and installing them which it all got right except one. The AMD GPU driver windows found in its wild scramble for APU drivers was causing the slow right click and some other weird issues when running on the integrated VEGA gpu in hybrid mode. Thank you to @mariushm, and others for confirming my suspicions and helping me.

 

Edited August 26, 2021 by RegulaSmegula

[mariushm]

You probably  installed some application or you have some features enabled that are called each time the context menu is created. 

 

For example, an application like 7-zip or Winrar if it's installed, may be called when you right click on a file so that it can tell whether to show "Extract here..." or  "Compress this folder..."  Some of these context menu options are automatically added based on file extensions but some may be based on answer from a DLL file or from an application being launched.

 

[NealonHQ]

I would agree with mariushm's answer. If the problem existed since you first booted the system, it might be related to additionaly installed software from the manafacturer. You could try to find out which software is the root cause if you uninstall them one after another. I would recommend a restart after every uninstallation. Otherwise you could try running a programm like Malewarybytes which is specialised to find such software which causes Problems.

[Johnston]

Maybe you need to install the drivers onto the laptop

[RegulaSmegula]

12 hours ago, mariushm said:

You probably  installed some application or you have some features enabled that are called each time the context menu is created. 

 

For example, an application like 7-zip or Winrar if it's installed, may be called when you right click on a file so that it can tell whether to show "Extract here..." or  "Compress this folder..."  Some of these context menu options are automatically added based on file extensions but some may be based on answer from a DLL file or from an application being launched.

 

Thank you very much, I'll try to see if anything is holding it up but I've already even tried deleting the Nvidia control panel button through the registry and that didn't help either so I'll see.