"My Computer" or Windows Explorer slows to a crawl

[Greg]

I upgraded a Windows 2000 Pro O/S to Windows XP Pro. Now
when I click on either the "My Computer" icon or My
Computer in Windows Explorer, an hour glass or a waving
torch appears and it takes ages to open the directory
tree. It is much faster to access the directory tree for
my C drive where it appears in "Computers Near Me" under
Network Neighbourhood, than to go directly into My
Computer. The O/S is running on a Pentium IV 2.4 GHz with
1 Gig of RAM.

Is there a cure for this?

 

[James DeMoss]

this worked for me!!!


When you click Start and then click My Computer, or when
you double-click My
Computer on your Windows desktop, Windows may search (a
flashlight may
appear) for a long time (for example, 5 minutes) before
files appear.

Disable the Windows Image Acquisition service.

More Information:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
US;819017


If this does not help, uninstall 821557 hotfix

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Regards,

Ramesh (MS-MVP)
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http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

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