re: My Computer takes 33 sec to display directory tree
Friday, May 27, 2005 at 7:45 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(23823 messages posted)
What does the Tak Manager show when this is happening?
On Friday, May 27, 2005 at 1:13 am, Chris Carter-Bown wrote:
>Morning,
>
>I have a Shuttle (athelon 1.24G), 1G ram, 2 drives - system and program (80g), data
>drive (120g). Running very well til Tuesday when any program that needs to access
>the directory tree (photoshop, wordpro et al) started to exhibit the really slooow
>response from explorer. My Computer now takes 33 seconds just to display the directory
>tree. In safe mode the response time is seconds.
>
>I've run HJT, and the log came back showing nothing of note. I've screened the pc
>with anti-spyware sw, and run zonealarm and norton.
>
>I am at a loss as to what could be causing this - hardware, software, bug, virus,
>annoying the mysterious Kor - all I know is that it is driving me to distraction.
>
>Please, any advice really will be helpful.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Chriscb.
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