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Frank Pulsucki Jr
I have just recently started having trouble with my 1.5 year install of
winxp pro. The trouble is as follows:
start>my computer open c: drive
start. my computer open d: drive
now with both windows open (c: D: both hard disks) I can right click on most
items that are NOT folders and a context menu comes up. Now if I right click
on a folder (like I want to copy or select properties) it will stay with an
hour glass for up to 4 minutes but I can go to second window while this is
happening and I can right click on a folder and it works as expected and
comes up almost immediately, first window is still frozen and after it very
long delay will pop up with menu for a second! I have tried scanning the
drives for viruses, defragging, chkdisk (no problems now did find some
errors and fixed them) I do not know what to do...I tried msconfig but it
gives some warning about not being able to find autoexec.exe, config.sys and
other files (this is a dual boot system and in win 98se all works fine with
no troubles). What other items can I try as I really would hate to wipe
drive and reinstall Winxp Pro, is there something as in win98 to check all
the files to see if there are proper versions and none are missing?? Sorry
it is so long just want to get this running like it was (I tried system
restore back about 2 weeks ago checkpoint and it was the same...and I just
remembered that I tried booting into winxp pro safe mode and it also hung up
they same way as I described. Thanks
Frank
winxp pro. The trouble is as follows:
start>my computer open c: drive
start. my computer open d: drive
now with both windows open (c: D: both hard disks) I can right click on most
items that are NOT folders and a context menu comes up. Now if I right click
on a folder (like I want to copy or select properties) it will stay with an
hour glass for up to 4 minutes but I can go to second window while this is
happening and I can right click on a folder and it works as expected and
comes up almost immediately, first window is still frozen and after it very
long delay will pop up with menu for a second! I have tried scanning the
drives for viruses, defragging, chkdisk (no problems now did find some
errors and fixed them) I do not know what to do...I tried msconfig but it
gives some warning about not being able to find autoexec.exe, config.sys and
other files (this is a dual boot system and in win 98se all works fine with
no troubles). What other items can I try as I really would hate to wipe
drive and reinstall Winxp Pro, is there something as in win98 to check all
the files to see if there are proper versions and none are missing?? Sorry
it is so long just want to get this running like it was (I tried system
restore back about 2 weeks ago checkpoint and it was the same...and I just
remembered that I tried booting into winxp pro safe mode and it also hung up
they same way as I described. Thanks
Frank