Slow population of "Look In" drop down in File Open Dialog

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Richard Stewart

I have a delay of up to 60 seconds for a list to populate when I pull down
the "Look In" list in the FIle Open dialog . Same thing happens if I click
the My Computer icon (up to 60 seconds for the icons to appear). I
understand others have the problem but that it requires an expert to fix it.
I don't mind paying for the fix but not in advance like the link here
requires:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_21068062.html

Microsoft addresses the problem but it is too deep for me and you have to
know how to work with the registry.

Is there some way for an intermediate computer user to tackle this problem?
I thought I could solve it by reinstalling the operating system, clean out
spyware, clean registry, defrag, get rid of errors, etc. but nothing helps.

I'll pay for a solution that works.

Richard
 
Hi Richard,

Long delay before files appear in My Computer in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;819017
Both may be inter-related.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Window XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


I have a delay of up to 60 seconds for a list to populate when I pull down
the "Look In" list in the FIle Open dialog . Same thing happens if I click
the My Computer icon (up to 60 seconds for the icons to appear). I
understand others have the problem but that it requires an expert to fix it.
I don't mind paying for the fix but not in advance like the link here
requires:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_21068062.html

Microsoft addresses the problem but it is too deep for me and you have to
know how to work with the registry.

Is there some way for an intermediate computer user to tackle this problem?
I thought I could solve it by reinstalling the operating system, clean out
spyware, clean registry, defrag, get rid of errors, etc. but nothing helps.

I'll pay for a solution that works.

Richard
 
I have an external drive which I disconnected to see if that would help. It
didn't.
 
Richard,

See if a Regmon trace helps, and observe if it stalls for a moment while
reading "MountPoints2" key/values?

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Window XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


I have an external drive which I disconnected to see if that would help. It
didn't.
 
Richard,

See if a Regmon trace helps, and observe if it stalls for a moment while
reading "MountPoints2" key/values?
Click to expand...

I'm having the same problem. Killing the WIA service didn't seem to
fix it nor am I getting any odd stalls reading MountPointsxxxx. Any
other ideas. This is really annoying.
 
Does this help?

The "Look In" and "Save As" Boxes in Common Dialog Boxes Are Slow:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321126/


--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Richard,

See if a Regmon trace helps, and observe if it stalls for a moment while
reading "MountPoints2" key/values?
Click to expand...

I'm having the same problem. Killing the WIA service didn't seem to
fix it nor am I getting any odd stalls reading MountPointsxxxx. Any
other ideas. This is really annoying.
 
I don't have any mapped network drives on this machine. Also that's a
fix for Win2000. Does the same registry entry work for WinXP?
 
Spiff,

If you don't have any mapped drives, then the Registry edit in that article
does not apply.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


I don't have any mapped network drives on this machine. Also that's a
fix for Win2000. Does the same registry entry work for WinXP?
 
Ok, no mapped drives. I do have a number of external removable
drives, but even with them disconnect it is still slow.
 
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