very slow windows explorer

[mail.van.roger]

Hi,

My windows explorer responds very slow. Especially graphical. When I
open a directory with photo's the memory use directly increases to
100%. THis happens since I have replaced my HD and reinstalled XP pro
SP2. Also I have extended my RAM with 256MB to 640MB.

Very annoying. Can anyone help?

 

[Danny Wareham]

When I first read your post, the first suggestion came to mind was to have
you turn off your thumbnail view for the photos. However, since I noticed
that you replaced your HD, I'm wonder if you are working in PIO mode. You
may want to check and set it to DMA mode. Here are instructions.

http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/howto-05.html

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[DL]

You sure the ram chips you have used are compatible?
you would appear to have a 128mb chip in there

 

[Malke]

Hi,

My windows explorer responds very slow. Especially graphical. When I
open a directory with photo's the memory use directly increases to
100%. THis happens since I have replaced my HD and reinstalled XP pro
SP2. Also I have extended my RAM with 256MB to 640MB.

Very annoying. Can anyone help?

When you clean-installed Windows, did you also install the drivers for
all your hardware? This includes your motherboard, video and audio,
networking, etc. If you didn't, then your first step is to do this and
see if it fixes the issue. Never get drivers from Windows Update. Get
them from:

1. The device mftr.'s website; OR
2. The motherboard mftr.'s website if hardware is onboard; OR
3. The OEM's website for your specific machine if you have an OEM
computer (HP, Dell, Sony, etc.).

Read the installation instructions on the website where you get the
drivers.

To find out what hardware is in your computer:

1. Read any documentation you got when you bought the computer.
2. If the computer is OEM, go to the OEM's website for your specific
model machine and look at the specs (you'll be there to get the drivers
anyway)
3. Download, install and run a free system inventory program like Belarc
Advisor. The older Aida32 is good for this, too.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html - Belarc Advisor
http://www.aumha.org/free.htm - Aida32 (hosted on Jim Eshelman's site)

Another thing to check is whether the hard drive is in PIO mode. See MVP
Hans-Georg Michna's information about that here:
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm

Malke

 

[mail.van.roger]

Danny,

Thanks for your comment. I have checked and the new HD is running in
DMA mode since I have it installed.

R

Danny Wareham schreef:

 

[mail.van.roger]

DL,

Yes I'm sure. My system tells me that I have 640MB of RAM. I have
inserted twice 256 and once 128MB. Alle the DIMM are of the same kind.

DL schreef:

 

[Guest]

Have you tried a differnet user on the same machine to see if it does the
same thing. It might be your user profile is corrupted.