In message , gargoyle60
writes:
On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 08:46:02 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

When I open "My Computer" - for example with Windows-E, but I notice it
most when downloading something and my browser has "remembered"
somewhere on the wrong drive, so I have to climb the tree up and then
down again or use the My Computer button in the save window* - it takes
a long time, with the torch waving, before it shows me the list of
drives and a couple of things like "my documents". (If done from Win+E,
also shows the webcam.)

(*Yes, I know browsers can be set to always save in the same place. I
don't want that - I want it to ask me where. That would be sidestepping
the problem anyway.)

I presume it is trying to check for network drives or something, and/or
devices like the webcam. Is there no way it can be told not to (or
whatever solves this)?

For the moment, I have a desktop shortcut to the root of my D: drive,
which opens quickly, but may be covered by a window, and it doesn't help
in the "save" situation above.

It could be caused by spin-down of drives when they are not in use.
Check your power-saving settings (Turn of hard disks).

Thanks, but I don't think it's that: I only have one real drive on this
netbook, though it is partitioned.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

What is the point of a really good degree, if you're just like Harold Wilson?
That really cut me down to size. - Sister Wendy Becket, on DIDs 2012-12-16
(She, like he, got one of the best degrees at Oxford in her year.)