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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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