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Windows Explorer almost unresponsive
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Windows Explorer almost unresponsive
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 7:53 am
Posted by james
(384 messages posted)
At times when going to the Explorer to do some file maneuvers, it goes unresponsive
and a progress bar begins to run slowly across the top of the Explorer window real
slow and I can't do any actions. Also "My Computer" and the other icons in the left
hand window change to an animated look indicating an update is happening.
This
is different behavior from the Explorer in XP. I turned off an indexing service
that looked like the resource hog in the task manager, changing its startup behavior
to "manual". This may or may not have helped. What's the rationale for this slow
virtually locking Explorer behavior? Can it be stopped?
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re: Windows Explorer almost unresponsive
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Posted by rocannon
(106 messages posted)
i've turned ie8 off and use firefox exclusively
TANSTAAFL!
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re: Windows Explorer almost unresponsive
Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 9:09 am
Posted by Mike Levine
(3 messages posted)
When WinExplore is ocassionally unresponsive it typcially points to other processes
that have a higher priority than updating the UI. Within this context internet activity
can cause CPU bottleneck as well as USB file transfers that appear to be stuck.
More information is needed please.
1. What activities are you performing
2. Are you transferring (copy or cut/paste) files to USB or another drive or drive
partition
3. What programs are your running simultaneously (if any)?
4. What are your hard drive configurations (size, partitions, pagefile location,
last time error checking and deframentation were run)
5. Computer configuration (what you have connected) and memory and CPU.
6. Home network activity, sharing a folder or a drive?
7. Is your network secure (ie., is your wireless router protected from anonymous
connectivity)?
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re: Windows Explorer almost unresponsive
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 7:35 am
Posted by james
(384 messages posted)
1. What activities are you performing
All running software is shutdown - trying to copy/move files within Explorer
2. Are you transferring (copy or cut/paste) files to USB or another drive or drive
partition
Sometimes yes, but I can't even start as I have to wait endlessly for the progress
bar to go across the top of the window.
3. What programs are your running simultaneously (if any)?
None, just normal processes
4. What are your hard drive configurations (size, partitions, pagefile location,
last time error checking and deframentation were run)
SATA - 1 drive, 1/2 full, will check defrag but this is a quad-core system so normally
everything runs real fast with the exception of Explorer going haywire.
5. Computer configuration (what you have connected) and memory and CPU.
quad-core, 2gb interleaving
6. Home network activity, sharing a folder or a drive?
Sharing 5 folders - not very active
7. Is your network secure (ie., is your wireless router protected from anonymous
connectivity)?
wireless router is strongly password protected
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