Save As to Desktop takes foreever to respond

[Hari]

Hi,

I have windows XP SP2, Intel 1.86 GhZ, 1.5 GB memory (and almost 10 GB
of free space in C

Im facing a strange problem with my corporate laptop for the past 4/5
months.

When ever I try to do a "Save as" from PDF, any of the MS Office XP
application, Notepad etc, and try to choose desktop location from the
Save as dialog box then my laptop takes a long time to respond (as
much as even 1 or 2 minutes or more)

I have deleted all my temporary files, cookies etc and still see no
increase in response time.

Can somebody suggest a resolution.

hp

 

[Unknown]

Do a disk cleanup also.

 

[Hari]

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My recycle bin is empty and I do have 10 GB of free space in C:

I cannot do format/reinstall etc

hp

 

[Unknown]

Do NOT want you to do a format and install. Go to start--all
programs --accessories--system tools---disk Clean-up.

 

[Hari]

Do NOT want you to do a format and install. Go to start--all








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Hi,

Thanks for the clarification egarding disk clean-up. I could remove
30MB of temp internet file space based on the same.

But, Im seeing the same performance issue.

Specifically, whenever I click on "SAVE as" from any application (Word/
Excel, Notepad, or even Non-Microsoft softwares)

a) then there is lot of delay in opening up the dialog box (here delay
is much more in Non-microsoft softwares)

b) After the dialog box opens up, if I use the left hand icon DESKTOP
(from "Recent", "Desktop" "My Documents" "My computer" "My network" )
then it takes a good 2/3 minutes to open up desktop locations
irrespective of whether it is MS software or Non-MS software (here
delay is same for both MS and non-MS)

c) If after I come to desktop, I navigate to some other location like
My computer and then again click on left-hand side icon for Desktop,
it again takes as much time as b)

What could be the cause?

hp

 

[Hari]

Hi,

Thanks for the clarification egarding disk clean-up. I could remove
30MB of temp internet file space based on the same.

But, Im seeing the same performance issue.

Specifically, whenever I click on "SAVE as" from any application (Word/
Excel, Notepad, or even Non-Microsoft softwares)

a) then there is lot of delay in opening up the dialog box (here delay
is much more in Non-microsoft softwares)

b) After the dialog box opens up, if I use the left hand icon DESKTOP
(from "Recent", "Desktop" "My Documents" "My computer" "My network" )
then it takes a good 2/3 minutes to open up desktop locations
irrespective of whether it is MS software or Non-MS software (here
delay is same for both MS and non-MS)

c) If after I come to desktop, I navigate to some other location like
My computer and then again click on left-hand side icon for Desktop,
it again takes as much time as b)

What could be the cause?

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I want to add 2 points:-

a) My desktop does NOT have too many files, folders and the biggest
size folder is just 236KB. Majority of items (23) I have is in form of
short-cuts to different folders in D: drive.

b) I dont see any performance issues while using Windows explorer to
navigate to desktop.

hp

 

[Hari]

I want to add 2 points:-

a) My desktop does NOT have too many files, folders and the biggest
size folder is just 236KB. Majority of items (23) I have is in form of
short-cuts to different folders in D: drive.

b) I dont see any performance issues while using Windows explorer to
navigate to desktop.

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I located the source of the problem.

It is the many shortcut items which is causing delayed performance!!

I removed all the shortcuts (to different files, folders in D from
the desktop and put it within a sub-folder in desktop. This time SAVE
as opens up immediately across different applications!!

k, here is my next question. I have always refrained from keeping any
big files, folders on D: as one of my colleagues said that big sized
files will cause windows loading up etc to get delayed. Hence, I
started keeping shortcuts and more shortcuts to different excel/word
and other applications in desktop. But, now I come to learn that even
this will cause a performance degradation.

What is the solution to this? I would like to be able to quickly
access different important files and still be able to not be bogged
down with performance issue.

hp

 

[Unknown]

Try normal maintenance at least once a week. I.E. First run Disk Cleanup
then defrag.
As you already know, keep the number of shortcuts down.
Configure your machine to load the minimum number of programs on boot up.
I.E. Don't load them if you don't need them.
(Start--run--msconfig---OK--startup tab--Remove
X's from items not needed.)
Don't run programs in the background ---virus scanners and malware programs.