'My Computer ' window slows down in the afternoon!

[Stuart Halliday]

Yes I've got an odd fault.

On my Windows 2000 pro, 1GHz, 512MB RAM SP4 PC I find that in the late
afternoon if I open the 'My Computer' window then it take about 20-30
secs to open.

There is only a C: drive, D: CDROM and 6 network shares to a Win NT4
SP6a server on a local 100Mbit LAN in there.

If I kill explorer.exe and restart it then the problem goes away until
the next day.

Other win2000 computers on the same LAN are not showing this problem.

RAM is not an issue as there is plenty free. Though it does seems to
sound likes it's a system resource problem doesn't it?

I'd like to know which resource is not big enough.

Can you kind reader help?


PC is Virus, Spyware and defrag clean.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Anything in your event logs?
What SP on W2k?
Any unavailable shares when you type

net use <enter>

in a command prompt?

 

[Stuart Halliday]

Anything in your event logs?

Lots but nothing to do with this.
Application logs - lots of McUpdate logs from the Mcafee AV software.
Security logs - none
System logs - ohhhh it has a bad block on the C: drive.

(I've now chkdsk cleaned the C: drive)
I'll see if this has corrected the fault. Somehow I doubt it.

What SP on W2k?

SP4.
The computer is also kept up to date with the automatic update program.

Any unavailable shares when you type

net use <enter>
in a command prompt?

No. Clean as a whistle.

 

[why]

Is there any file named win.log is created on the root
of the C: drive ?