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Gary Fritz
What causes mystery hangups in the Windows Explorer?
I'm running XP Home on a 3.0 GHz system with 2GB of RAM. Sometimes
Explorer will get into a state where almost any action -- scrolling the
foler listing in the left pane, selecting a new folder, etc -- locks up the
Explorer for anywhere from 10sec to a minute or more. Often opening a new
Explorer window will get around the problem for a while (the new Explorer
works fine while the old one is still hung), but generally the new one will
get hung up before long too.
Task Manager says the CPU is idle; System Idle Process is taking up 95% or
more. System Monitor doesn't show any increase in disk activity (looking
at Avg Disk Queue Length, Disk Reads/sec, Disk Writes/sec, and Pages/sec).
As far as I can tell NOTHING is happening, but the Explorer just sits
there, hung, until it decides to run again. Why?
A somewhat-similar-but-unrelated issue: often when I pull down the Address
bar in Explorer (to select a different disk or quickly navigate up), it
hangs up for several (5-10) seconds. I'm assuming this is because it has
to hit all disks for some reason, and some of them are dormant and have to
spin up first. True? Or is something else going on?
Thanks!
Gary
I'm running XP Home on a 3.0 GHz system with 2GB of RAM. Sometimes
Explorer will get into a state where almost any action -- scrolling the
foler listing in the left pane, selecting a new folder, etc -- locks up the
Explorer for anywhere from 10sec to a minute or more. Often opening a new
Explorer window will get around the problem for a while (the new Explorer
works fine while the old one is still hung), but generally the new one will
get hung up before long too.
Task Manager says the CPU is idle; System Idle Process is taking up 95% or
more. System Monitor doesn't show any increase in disk activity (looking
at Avg Disk Queue Length, Disk Reads/sec, Disk Writes/sec, and Pages/sec).
As far as I can tell NOTHING is happening, but the Explorer just sits
there, hung, until it decides to run again. Why?
A somewhat-similar-but-unrelated issue: often when I pull down the Address
bar in Explorer (to select a different disk or quickly navigate up), it
hangs up for several (5-10) seconds. I'm assuming this is because it has
to hit all disks for some reason, and some of them are dormant and have to
spin up first. True? Or is something else going on?
Thanks!
Gary