'My Computer' slow to open

[E. Brent Price]

When I click on 'my computer' it takes about 3 minutes for the drive icons to
appear.

This happened after a sudden crash last thursday that renamed two of my hard
drives (just the ones connected to the MB) to DRV5_VOL1 and DRV7_VOL1
respectively. What the heck is DRV?

So I need Disk Management, eh? I opened computer management, clicked Disk
Management and it's been an hour now. Still waiting.

Also the same if I click 'browse' on something. Explorer doesn't work any
better than My Computer.

Everything else is normal speed. When I open a lower file and can navigate
up and down fine unless I need to access another disk.

If you can't help I'll still love you, but I sure hope someone has an idea
for little ol' me.

E. Brent Price

 

[E. Brent Price]

BTW I used AdAware and McAfee scans with no change and nothing found. I also
used Western Digital drive-to-drive copy for my C: drive so go ahead, I'm
ready to crash this thing. Hit something hard, I don't want to limp away
from this.

Brent

 

[Gerry]

DRV is an abbreviation for Drive?

What errors appear in Event Viewer for your first attempt to boot in
normal mode when you encountered the problem?

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in the
System and Application logs in Event Viewer relating to the last boot in
normal mode . No Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate
which also appear in a previous boot.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
are important.

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.

Another way to investigate your hard drive is to use HD Tune.

Try HD Tune only gives information and does not fix any
problems.

Download and run it and see what it turns up. You want HD Tune
(freeware) version 2.55 not HD Tune Pro (not Freeware) version 3.00.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive
letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )
and copy into a further message.

Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to
Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Make sure you do a full
surface scan with HD Tune.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[E. Brent Price]

What errors appear in Event Viewer for your first attempt to boot in
normal mode when you encountered the problem?

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in the
System and Application logs in Event Viewer relating to the last boot in
normal mode . No Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate
which also appear in a previous boot.

I have 30 warnings and 14 errors on the 30th IF that is the day of the crash
which seems like a lot to post here. The errors are all application hangs.
The errors have a 2 then 4 event pattern...the 2 are 'Userenv' and the 4 are
2'EventAgnt' and 2
'Microsoft Fax'. Here's a couple of errors that occur right after Winlogon:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Hang
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 10/30/2008
Time: 9:47:25 PM
User: N/A
Computer: MERLIN
Description:
Fault bucket 452615105.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 42 75 63 6b 65 74 3a 20 Bucket:
0008: 34 35 32 36 31 35 31 30 45261510
0010: 35 0d 0a 5..



Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Hang
Event Category: (101)
Event ID: 1002
Date: 10/30/2008
Time: 10:00:33 PM
User: N/A
Computer: MERLIN
Description:
Hanging application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.3156, hang module
hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 48 61 6e 67 ion Hang
0010: 20 20 65 78 70 6c 6f 72 explor
0018: 65 72 2e 65 78 65 20 36 er.exe 6
0020: 2e 30 2e 32 39 30 30 2e .0.2900.
0028: 33 31 35 36 20 69 6e 20 3156 in
0030: 68 75 6e 67 61 70 70 20 hungapp
0038: 30 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30 20 0.0.0.0
0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65 at offse
0048: 74 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 t 000000
0050: 30 30 00



Here's the 2 warnings:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1524
Date: 10/30/2008
Time: 10:17:25 PM
User: MERLIN\E. Brent Price
Computer: MERLIN
Description:
Windows cannot unload your classes registry file - it is still in use by
other applications or services. The file will be unloaded when it is no
longer in use.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1517
Date: 10/30/2008
Time: 10:17:38 PM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: MERLIN
Description:
Windows saved user MERLIN\E. Brent Price registry while an application or
service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the
user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is
no longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring
the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


Am I doing this wrong or should I post everything?

Thanks Brent

 

[E. Brent Price]

I have 30 warnings and 14 errors on the 30th IF that is the day of the crash
which seems like a lot to post here. The errors are all application hangs.
The errors have a 2 then 4 event pattern...the 2 are 'Userenv' and the 4 are
2'EventAgnt' and 2
'Microsoft Fax'.
Thanks Brent

Correction, it is the Warnings that come in 2s and 4s not the errors.

 

[Gerry]

You are getting a lot of Reports.

Application Hang Warnings are usually symptoms not the cause.
Concentrate on Error Reports in the System Log.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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