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Windows explorer runs really slowly
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 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. |
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"Jason" wrote in message ... 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. Buffalo 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. |
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Windows explorer runs really slowly
"Jason" wrote in message ... 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. Buffalo 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. |
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-----Original Message----- "Jason" wrote in message ... 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. Buffalo 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. . I actually do have many (100) folders in My Documents folder. I will try the fix and see if it helps. Thanks for the response. |
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Windows explorer runs really slowly
-----Original Message----- "Jason" wrote in message ... 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. Buffalo 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. . I actually do have many (100) folders in My Documents folder. I will try the fix and see if it helps. Thanks for the response. |
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