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Would appreciate any tips or suggestion on where to start tracking this down. Thanks. Petre. Hi Petre, A coupld of years back I had the same problem when opening Windows Explorer. As it turns out my particular problem was having too many subfolders under C:\My Documents (which has been discussed in this thread already). Once I re-structured my folders as to have a limit of 75 subfolders in C:\My Documents the problem was solved. I understand that your problem is with your "D" drive and you have 0 subfolders under C:\My Documents but the reason I bring this up is about year later I was having the same problem -- Windows Explorer was extremely slow. At the time the only 'fix' I knew of was defragging and to keep a limit of 100 subfolders under C:\My Documents only this was happening when viewing another partition where I now had many of my files/folders. It was set up similar to your C:\, D:\, and E:\ partitions. Since most of my files where now on D:\ I took a look and found it somthing like this.: D:\My Documents\ -- 75 subfolders D:\My HTML\ -- 425 sublfolders D:\My Images\ -- 225 subfolders D:\My PDF\ -- 150 subfolders Since defragging/rebooting didn't cure the problem and the only other known remedy was to keep the subfolders below 100 (in C:\My Documents) I re-organized the entire drive (8Gb) so the most subfolders any folder off of D: would have was 75 Once done organizing the folders I defragged again the rebooted. For me the problem was solved. Explorer never slowed down for me again. I can't quite explain the whys but for me it took care of a very slow Explorer and it might be worth trying on your PC. Also a link below to check out. http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...t2/wrkc10.mspx Hope this helps, John ;-) |
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I was checking out the articles in this newsgroup today because I was having
numerous problems the last few days with the system taking forever to do anything. I read the tip about removing files from the my documents folder. I tried it and voila !!! I am back to regular speed. Thank you very much.. Karim "Mario" wrote in message ... Would appreciate any tips or suggestion on where to start tracking this down. Thanks. Petre. Hi Petre, A coupld of years back I had the same problem when opening Windows Explorer. As it turns out my particular problem was having too many subfolders under C:\My Documents (which has been discussed in this thread already). Once I re-structured my folders as to have a limit of 75 subfolders in C:\My Documents the problem was solved. I understand that your problem is with your "D" drive and you have 0 subfolders under C:\My Documents but the reason I bring this up is about year later I was having the same problem -- Windows Explorer was extremely slow. At the time the only 'fix' I knew of was defragging and to keep a limit of 100 subfolders under C:\My Documents only this was happening when viewing another partition where I now had many of my files/folders. It was set up similar to your C:\, D:\, and E:\ partitions. Since most of my files where now on D:\ I took a look and found it somthing like this.: D:\My Documents\ -- 75 subfolders D:\My HTML\ -- 425 sublfolders D:\My Images\ -- 225 subfolders D:\My PDF\ -- 150 subfolders Since defragging/rebooting didn't cure the problem and the only other known remedy was to keep the subfolders below 100 (in C:\My Documents) I re-organized the entire drive (8Gb) so the most subfolders any folder off of D: would have was 75 Once done organizing the folders I defragged again the rebooted. For me the problem was solved. Explorer never slowed down for me again. I can't quite explain the whys but for me it took care of a very slow Explorer and it might be worth trying on your PC. Also a link below to check out. http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...t2/wrkc10.mspx Hope this helps, John ;-) |
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