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TheProf · 05-03-2005, 08:09 AM

Hello,

I've got this interesting problem on my machine. The further I go down the directory tree, the slower it takes to show the files in WIndows Explorer. ANd I mean REALLY slow. Up to a minute to go from c:\my documents\work to c:\my documents\work\spreadsheets for example. The computer will just sit there seemingly frozen and then eventually load. And once it goes slow, it remains slow no matter what directory I look at. But it only happens with Windows Explorer. If I browse through the tree using File -> Open in MS Word for example, it is normal speed.

I've done the usual stuff - antivirus, antispyware, scandisk, and defragmented - and it comes out clean like a whistle. The drive is 20 GB with 11 GB used up. It is running Windows 98 SE with 256MB ram on P4 processor.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

05-03-2005, 08:09 AM	#1 (permalink)
TheProf Crazy	Very slow changing & listing directories. Hello, I've got this interesting problem on my machine. The further I go down the directory tree, the slower it takes to show the files in WIndows Explorer. ANd I mean REALLY slow. Up to a minute to go from c:\my documents\work to c:\my documents\work\spreadsheets for example. The computer will just sit there seemingly frozen and then eventually load. And once it goes slow, it remains slow no matter what directory I look at. But it only happens with Windows Explorer. If I browse through the tree using File -> Open in MS Word for example, it is normal speed. I've done the usual stuff - antivirus, antispyware, scandisk, and defragmented - and it comes out clean like a whistle. The drive is 20 GB with 11 GB used up. It is running Windows 98 SE with 256MB ram on P4 processor. Any thoughts? Thanks