Windows Explorer recently started Crawling when I open it!

[Kent P. Iler]

Hi,

I have a decent laptop with 1GB Ram, 64MB Video Card, and 60 GB Hard Drive
running a 1.5 Ghz Centrino Processor. Over the past week or so, Windows
Explorer takes a much longer time than normal before all my drives are
listed and I can navigation to my destination.

Typically, I can start navigating within 1-2 seconds, unless I just put in a
new CD-Rom. However, lately this is taking like 30 seconds or more before I
can start drilling down into anywhere. I've run Spybot Search and Destroy,
and Ad-Aware for spyware, plus I have current definitions for SAV 9.1, and
it's always running in real-time protection mode.

I've been using this laptop in this configuration for over 6 months, and it
just started doing this recently. It normally has fast response, even if
mapped drives aren't available. I even went to the trouble of disconnecting
any drive that wasn't available, and that still didn't help.

Any help or recommendations would be appreciated.

Thank you!

-- Kent Iler

 

[Vernon]

Hi,

I have a decent laptop with 1GB Ram, 64MB Video Card, and 60 GB Hard Drive
running a 1.5 Ghz Centrino Processor. Over the past week or so, Windows
Explorer takes a much longer time than normal before all my drives are
listed and I can navigation to my destination.

Typically, I can start navigating within 1-2 seconds, unless I just put in a
new CD-Rom. However, lately this is taking like 30 seconds or more before I
can start drilling down into anywhere. I've run Spybot Search and Destroy,
and Ad-Aware for spyware, plus I have current definitions for SAV 9.1, and
it's always running in real-time protection mode.

I've been using this laptop in this configuration for over 6 months, and it
just started doing this recently. It normally has fast response, even if
mapped drives aren't available. I even went to the trouble of disconnecting
any drive that wasn't available, and that still didn't help.

Any help or recommendations would be appreciated.

Thank you!

-- Kent Iler

Kent,
By chance, are you using Panda 2005 (Titanium)antivirus software? I am
having the same problem with Panda 2005 Titanium. I contacted Panda
yesterday. No answer yet. I gave up and removed Panda 2005. All is back
to normal now.

Vernon

 

[Guest]

Clean your system. Do a disk cleanup. Delete cookies, on and offline
Temporary files. Defrag. Then..........if none of these help. Go to:
Start/Run/type MSCONFIG and click OK
Click the Startup tab and disable everything except your anti-virus.
If still no speedup. Try a Restore of your system to before the problem
started, you can go back up to 90 days.

 

[kentiler]

No...I don't have any Panda software.

--Kent

Kent,
By chance, are you using Panda 2005 (Titanium)antivirus software? I am
having the same problem with Panda 2005 Titanium. I contacted Panda
yesterday. No answer yet. I gave up and removed Panda 2005. All is back
to normal now.

Vernon

 

[kentiler]

Will try that. Will probably end up reloading laptop from scratch in
March when I'm done with my current project.

--Kent