Explorer extremely slow

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Terry Pinnell

The simplest operations have suddenly become glacially slow. For
example, going up one level in a My Computer folder is taking 20
seconds or so. While it does, TM shows me that Explore is using 98% of
CPU resource.

What is the most likely cause please?

I recall a similar problem years ago, which I vaguely remember was due
to 'shellicon cache', or something like that?
 
Hi Terry,


Terry said:
The simplest operations have suddenly become glacially slow. For
example, going up one level in a My Computer folder is taking 20
seconds or so. While it does, TM shows me that Explore is using 98% of
CPU resource.

What is the most likely cause please?

I recall a similar problem years ago, which I vaguely remember was due
to 'shellicon cache', or something like that?
Click to expand...
 
/Terry Pinnell/ said:
The simplest operations have suddenly become glacially slow. For
example, going up one level in a My Computer folder is taking 20
seconds or so. While it does, TM shows me that Explore is using 98% of
CPU resource.

What is the most likely cause please?

I recall a similar problem years ago, which I vaguely remember was due
to 'shellicon cache', or something like that?
Click to expand...

One thing to check...

If you have a USB card reader, or similar device that takes removable
media, place the media in the drive - and reboot. You can then remove
the media if you desire. See if that improves the situation.
 
dev said:
/Terry Pinnell/ said:


One thing to check...

If you have a USB card reader, or similar device that takes removable
media, place the media in the drive - and reboot. You can then remove
the media if you desire. See if that improves the situation.
Click to expand...

Thanks both, I'll try those suggestions. Problem seems erratic though
- sometimes much worse than others, with no obvious pattern.

I may resort to using Filemon to see if it offers any clue as to
what's happening during those sluggish folder operations. But from
past experience, I recall that most of what Filemon displays (rapidly,
and by the bucket full) tells me very little I can understand!
 
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