Problem: Windows File Explorer Hanging

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Hi there,
For the last week, I've had a problem with my explorer sort of "hanging". Whenever I hit "My Computer" on a save dialog, or when I load the file explorer, it hangs for a while, and then loads. Once it has loaded, it is fine, and everything is as fast as normal.

This is a screenshot of what happens: http://www.nicksmit.co.za/myadsl/screenshot.jpg

In the above situation, I can click on the address bar, while it is "searching", and type in something like "C:\Nick", and it'll go directly there without hanging.

I also experiance when opening applications such as FTP client (which opens a file explorer in it).

I have tried removing the harddrives from Device Manager, and there was no change.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix it? I could just do a format/reinstall, but I don't really have the time for that right now.

Cheers, Nick
 
Nick, I understand your frustration, I've just *finally* fixed a XP problem I had for four months.

If it's only Windows Explorer giving you hassles, I would say it might be software related and a reinstall should fix it.

When I built my last PC, Windows explorer & Internet Explorer kept crashing. I went through all the diagnostics before I discovered it was faulty RAM DIMMs causing the crashes. (Ran MemTest to find that out.)

*The four month problem I had, was my graphics card freezing up in games, getting 'out of frequency range' messages. I was starting to think that they sold me a faulty graphics card & was thinking of buying a new one - it was driving me completely nuts.

Read on the internet about people having the same problem and I noticed that they all had the same sound card - Audigy 2 ZS Pro.

Reinstalled XP, installed the original Creative drivers (didn't update it like last time) and voila!, everything works perfectly. I can even overclock my graphics card in games now, without any crashes. Jippiee!!
 
Yeah, it really is so frustrating! I also run ubuntu, and don't get the same problem when accessing my NTFS drive from ubuntu - so I don't think it is hardware related. Unfortunately it's looking as if I'm gonna have to do a format/reinstall. I'm about to write finals now though, so it will have to wait.

Thanks for the reply,
Nick
 
Nick, something else I forgot to mention - I use TuneUp 2006 utilities, it has helped me more than once to fix Windows registry & startup problems. (It's the first thing I install after XP on my pc.)

You can download it here : http://www.tune-up.com/

Give it a try, might save you the hassle of a reinstall...
 
Yes, DON'T use mapped drives. They cause a slow down. There is nothing worse than going to a co-workers PC and they have about 20 mapped drives.
 
You running Windows XP or 2K?

My Windows 2000 also recently started giving this problem. Maybe it is because of a bug in a recent update hotfix.
 
Removing mapped drives didn't help :( I'm running XP sp2.
Just remembered now, I've been getting an error message everytime I boot up (Data Execution Prevention), that looks like this: http://www.nicksmit.co.za/myadsl/error.jpg
After clicking close, the same dialog pops up again, and the I carry on clicking close, and eventually it goes away.
Not sure if the two problems are related? Grrr.. and Ubuntu 64 doesn't do flash :( !

Cheers, Nick
 
There is something seriously wrong with ur system for that service to crash, try refreshing windows, or you could use an app such as ccleaner, to remove all the trash and rubbish from your registry,
 
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