I spent a fair amount of time yesterday looking for a solution for why my computer has been acting so oddly roughly since Windows SP2 was added to the mix. Looking for problems under "Sp2 issues," or "windows shell crashes" turned up nothing. The magic phrase was "right click." That's it. That was the most difficult part of the fix. That still lead to multiple solutions, everything from "your log in is corrupted, create a new one" to "old versions of the DivX codec are incompatible with Windows SP2." Well, using the rule of thumb that you start with the simplest and cheapest solution first, I removed DivX.
Now everything works, without even rebooting. This isn't the first time my wife has gotten me out of a jam. See, I was the one who found the suggestion about creating a new login, which would have been more taxing. It was Rebecca who found the DivX solution.
Anyway, I'm posting this information on the off chance it might help someone else solve this very annoying and mysterious "right click crash" issue.
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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