Windows Explorer takes a long long time opening any folder

[yt855]

Windows Explorer takes a long long time opening any
folder on my desktop machine. For example if I click on
My computer on the desktop, it will take 6-7 minutes to
display the drives. As a result, I can not open a folder
or save a file into one as the program I am using stops
responding. I have re-installed the windows xp pro a 2nd
time but to no avail. all updates are current and
indexing service is off.

 

[t.cruise]

The only time that I've experienced that sort of problem is when I've left a
CD-RW in the CDR/CD-RW drive, that's been burned with a utility other than
the native windows CD burning utility. If that's the case, remove the CD-RW
or CDR disk, reboot, and see if the problem still exists.

 

[CS]

Windows Explorer takes a long long time opening any
folder on my desktop machine. For example if I click on
My computer on the desktop, it will take 6-7 minutes to
display the drives. As a result, I can not open a folder
or save a file into one as the program I am using stops
responding. I have re-installed the windows xp pro a 2nd
time but to no avail. all updates are current and
indexing service is off.

Do a virus scan with up to date software and the latest virus
definition files loaded.