WinXP Sp 2 - Slow File Operations

OK Techies - I have a problem and not the kind that can be fixed with anti-biotics!

The problem manifests itself in two ways:

1) Open Windows (File) explorer & click on the expand [+] icon next to "My Computer" - wait 30 seconds, folder finally expands.

2) Go to i can has cheezbuger?, find new lolcat, right click, "save picture as...", clikc on location drop down, wait 30 seconds, drop down finally drops down.

This happen son both of my PCs. In contrast, the same operations on all other machines int he house takes about two seconds. I am currently googling the problem and looking for similarities on both machines, but I am hoping someone here has hit this before and has a quick fix.

Thanks!!!!

 

I had that exact same problem and it was related to the CD/DVD rom burning software.

I uninstalled it and the problem went away.

 

Might be a utility that got added to the send-to folder.

Thanks for the cool site link. Just added it to my Firefox RSS feed.

 

That was my first thought, but I uninstalled that a while ago. Now it's still resident on the OTHER PC, so I can accept that. Guess I'll need to troll through the registry and see if there are any artifacts.

 

Interesting thought. Yes, I have networked drives, I have removed the funky ones like the drive mapped to my web server which requires a password. I'va also removed all of the mapped drives under "My Network Places" which I read can be problematic. Guess I'll remove ALL drives then see what happens. If things get zippy then I can re-add each drive to see which is the culprit.

But, it doesn't address the issue that all other machines in the house have mapped drives and not the same problem.

 

I have networked drives and see the same thing when they're connected.

 

Not networked drives

I unmapped them all and still slower than molasses in the winter. I'm going to try and see if I can strip out all of the other garbage (like the ref to my PDA, "other shared folders", etc.) and see if that does the trick.

 

the only things i can think of are:

- When was the last time you cleaned out the temp files from your browser?

- When was the last time you did a disc defrag?

- Do you have anti-virus software running that could be taxing the system?

- Try using CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ It deletes the temp internet files, your recycle bin, and cleans up your registry. You can tell it what you want it to look at.