"Jason" wrote in message
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Hello, I have a four year old pc with a one year old hard
drive that is divvied into two partitions with win98se and
winxp pro on the primary and extended partitions
respectively. I've got a 933mhz pIII cpu and 512mb of
sdram. I've recently noticed a drastic slowdown in
performance when browsing my hard drive's folders in
win98's windows explorer. folders in the explorer window
take forever to open and when i close the explorer window
it also takes a noticably long time to close. this
performance issue is not across-the-board, apps open and
run just fine, the prob is just in win explorer. i've
defragged my hard drive with Norton Systemworks, that
didn't help. I have Norton Internet Security '03 and
Norton Antivirus '02 installed and running at all times,
along with Lavasoft AdAware and SpyBot S&D, which I update

If you have a lot of folders in My Documents, move them to another
folder, at least temporarily and see if it helps.
If you have around 100+ folders in My Documents, it can cause the
similar symptoms to that above.
Quick and easy to try. You can always move the folders back if it
doesn't help.
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and scan the comp with regularly, so it seems unlikely that
a piece of malware is the problem. Finally, another odd
thing is that when i'm in xp, i can browse and open files
and folders in the 98 partition with normal speed. any
help would be greatly appreciated.