Slow performance of Explorer when run in folders tree view mode.

[Guest]

Howdy.

I experience very slow behaviour using Explorer (not IE) in XP Pro with
Service Pack 2 installed. The system is installed in a small local network of
about 10 nodes. When I choose Folders tree view I find that Explorer is very
slow in opening new directories.

Unfortunately I really have no idea how this happened in the first place. I
am therefore not able to reproduce it on other systems. Does anyone have
experience with slow behaviour in XP.

 

[Maurice N ~ MVP]

It may be due to this pc's video card. How much RAM does this card have?

 

[Guest]

Dear Maurice. The card, NVIDIA GeForce 6800, has 256 MB of RAM. The sluggish
behavior did, however, occur after some time of use. I therefore guess that
the problem is related to the OS and not to the hardware.

 

[Maurice N ~ MVP]

Expand on " behavior did, however, occur after some time of use".

When this 'behavior' happens, bring up Task Manager & take a look at memory
usage & what's running --- especially your apps.

When was last time you ran Disk Cleanup & Disk Defrag?