Slow opening folders

[Terry Pinnell]

The severity of this problem varies, but at its worst it's glacially
slow. For example, I might be viewing the My Computer folder
D:\Docs\SUNDRY\XYZ\ABC\Example and then click to go up one place in
the tree. But it sometimes takes 10-30 seconds to appear. This is
usually on the *first* occasion I start navigation in that folder
after a longish period. If I try again immediately, maybe going down
and up again, it's fast once more.

Despite much research (several times over the last year or so), I've
never found a solution. All the 'standard' house-keeping gets done
regularly, including defragging partitions daily. I also installed
CachemanXP to see if that would help.

Any of the experts have any suggestions as to how I might isolate the
cause and fix this please?

 

[Daave]

The severity of this problem varies, but at its worst it's glacially
slow. For example, I might be viewing the My Computer folder
D:\Docs\SUNDRY\XYZ\ABC\Example and then click to go up one place in
the tree. But it sometimes takes 10-30 seconds to appear. This is
usually on the *first* occasion I start navigation in that folder
after a longish period. If I try again immediately, maybe going down
and up again, it's fast once more.

Despite much research (several times over the last year or so), I've
never found a solution. All the 'standard' house-keeping gets done
regularly, including defragging partitions daily. I also installed
CachemanXP to see if that would help.

Any of the experts have any suggestions as to how I might isolate the
cause and fix this please?

I'm curious to know if this behavior happens in Safe Mode.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

I'm curious to know if this behavior happens in Safe Mode.

If I get around to trying that I'll let you know. Or rather, I'll do
so if it *does* still happen within the few minutes I could tolerate
in that highly restricted mode.

Anyone with any suggestions please?