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Oh, that's too bad. I do have to say that HP has been VERY responsive.
They've had me uninstalling, etc. They seem convinced that their software is just fine. Is your problem related to all programs/files or just MS ones? I assume that you've gone through all the virus checking stuff. I use adaware (seems to be better than norton in finding nasties), norton, spywareguard, spywareblaster and when I really want to crank down, I use sysafe to watch everything that is running. The only one not free is norton, but I'm sure you have some antivirus thing. I have tried cleaning the registry with several utilities. The best that has happened is nothing, the worst is after running norton systemwork to "correct" things, my system was not bootable and that time I really had to start all over. I'm sure that it "corrected" things that killed the system -- the system was very clean when I did this - just wanted to have a starting point where I knew everything was squeaky clean. So, be careful of some programs that will "fix you up". ;-) Try doing the "clean boot" and seeing if the problem goes away. I'm amazed that this one little program caused so much trouble. Anyway, the clean boot will shut down all non-MS stuff. You might also try a safe boot. That should be even more restrictive - for drivers and such. Yeah, I know, reboot reboot reboot... sigh If I find any more, I'll post here, of course. -- Joe B. "Mike Ferrie" wrote: Hi Joe, I got really excited when I saw your post. I fired up task manager and sure enough there it was Hpofxm07.exe. End process, right click on a file and... no difference. There were also another four processes running; Hposts07.exe, Hpoipm07.exe, Hpoevm07.exe and Hpoojd07.exe. Killed them all, still the same. Rebooted, closed the printer icon in the system tray, still the same. Removed the printer, still the same. From memory we've had trouble with HP printer software in the past, so the fact that it affected your machine is not altogether a surprise. Anyway, I'm still looking. "Fifthgen Guy" wrote: Nope - didn't add anything to the right click. Surprisingly, as I sent this last message, HP had sent me a pointer to MS VM software and told me to load it. I did, and uninstalled, reinstalled, etc. No diff. Since that program is the fax manager for the HP and I use my PC to fax, I'll just kill the sucker. [Like a water faucet, I can kill it and things will immediately start working...] I had been using this software and hardware since before I put on SP2 -- even before I went to winxp. Having this as stable software sure threw me off... -- Joe B. "da_test" wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:37:01 -0700, Fifthgen Guy wrote: OMG!!! I found this one. This time, it showed up because of a clean boot (turning off almost everything). In short, hpOFXM07.exe for my HP Officejet V40 software is the culprit. If I kill it, the problem immediately disappears. If I fire it up again, I go into the huge timeouts. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the printer software (this is the fax junk, etc, scanner software, etc. that comes with the printer). It complained that part of the install was "Unable to start the application--the Java Virtual Machine cannot be loaded." So, I'm guessing that after a do a reinstall of winxp, things would stop working properly after I had to install newer java for some program - don't remember that, so probably something automatic. But, this is a guess. I'm also guessing that the FX in the name means that this is some driver for the FAX interface - which I don't use. So, if you have this program running on your system, kill it (or close the hp printer icon in your systray) and see if your system starts working again. Just insane... but, true..?? -- Joe B. Good find ! very often, these exact symptoms are seen when an application misbehaves that has added something to the right click context menu. Uninstalling the offending program is the soution. Your HP prog didn't add anything to the right click context menu did it? Dave |
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Congrats!
BTW, the only buggy software on my XP also comes from HP (Scanner..supposed to be XP compatible, but freezes the startup process for ~10secs...annoying but I live with it) Also, the only hardware failure I had in many years of working with PC's was an HP CD-RW. "Fifthgen Guy" wrote in message ... OMG!!! I found this one. This time, it showed up because of a clean boot (turning off almost everything). In short, hpOFXM07.exe for my HP Officejet V40 software is the culprit. If I kill it, the problem immediately disappears. If I fire it up again, I go into the huge timeouts. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the printer software (this is the fax junk, etc, scanner software, etc. that comes with the printer). It complained that part of the install was "Unable to start the application--the Java Virtual Machine cannot be loaded." So, I'm guessing that after a do a reinstall of winxp, things would stop working properly after I had to install newer java for some program - don't remember that, so probably something automatic. But, this is a guess. I'm also guessing that the FX in the name means that this is some driver for the FAX interface - which I don't use. So, if you have this program running on your system, kill it (or close the hp printer icon in your systray) and see if your system starts working again. Just insane... but, true..?? -- Joe B. "Mike Ferrie" wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. I'll take a look at the link when I get a chance over the next day or two. One of the first things I checked out was an alternative user profile. Even with a newly created user the symptoms are the same. Good idea though. Mike "Fifthgen Guy" wrote: We could be talking about 2 different mechanisms. Sometimes, I think, I get into your same state. A reboot seems to get me out of that one. Of course, it doesn't make me happy that I have to reboot, nor that this unresolved problem goes unaddressed and I am left with living with it or doing something drastic. With previous problems (I use GLINT which shows how the resources are used on the system) some of my counters in WinXP disappeared. I tried zooming in on registry entries and had conversations with the GLINT author. Then I tried taking wholesale chunks of the registry and replacing them with "equivalent" chunks from a working machine. This takes hours and hours and reboots all over the place. I didn't find the problem - finally reinstalled winxp pro. The value in doing the registry testing is that I can find where the problem lies and do that from then on instead of reinstalling or begging for help from the MS gurus. I was able to find some test software to eliminate some possibilities. Because my 1st problem was between IExplorer and a non-MS program (an IRC program), I chased down the IRC: "device" and looked for specific references to the program and figured out how to feed data to the test program to simulate the situation. I figured this was RPC and was testing the DDEEXEC function. These start as guesses in the dark. I came across the tester at http://www.taltech.com/support/dde_sw/comtest.htm if you are interested. With your problem, have you tried it as a different user on your machine? I find some problems follow the user's registry and others do not. -- Joe B. "Mike Ferrie" wrote: Hi, I've read this discussion with interest and I sympathise with the frustration. Your problem may be a bit different to mine. I get the delay with non-MS files too. PDF and TXT show the same symptoms. I think it must be something to do with file associations but I don't know what. I've been using the same box for three years now without having reinstalled Windows. With lots of apps being installed and uninstalled over that time, I think the registry is most likely to be a bit screwed up. "Fifthgen Guy" wrote: It could be -- the registry is a big area, however. I have previously run sfc, hacked at the registry to replace huge chunks with registry from elsewhere, and after many hours of trying these things, finally just rebuilt winxp. I've only partially tried it this time. For some other problems, I have been able to guess at what to change by comparing registries from other machines (don't have one particularly close to this setup right now). Fortunately, the last time I rebuilt winxp, there was little that I had to reinstall afterwards. That was a surprise, but then maybe I've rebuilt it so often that I don't bother to put in the tweaks to make it faster, etc. so there is no longer much to fix afterwards? I see plenty of messages out on the net where people are having this problem. I see the "it must be a virus" response and then after they have the victim run hijackthis, the replies stop. So, I think, by far, just about everyone is writing this off as a virus that "someone else" can fix. A lot of people have run into this and it is being dismissed as a virus thing - it isn't. A fix would be very nice to have, a diagnostic to point in the direction would be nice, a document of the interprocess communications for explorer would be OK to scan and get ideas from. Alas, silence... ;-) Don't know if I mentioned it before, but when I click on a PDF or other non-MS file, I get fast response. I click on XLS, DOC, HTM, etc., I run into the long delays. 1 minute to fire up excel, another minute to load the XLS, etc. So, MS is using some mechanism for its own use that is not in play for other programs. "WRH" wrote: Could some Explorer registry setting be weird? The .zip file is my explorer settings, known to be ok. In compairson with yours, maybe some parameter will stand out as being odd... "Fifthgen Guy" wrote in message ... Sad to say, yes... I did think of it. In the "old days" this was a big problem with my win98. Here again, it would be great to know why explorer is just sitting and timing out. But that is not the case here. In fact, just to be extra cautious, I rebooted with the network shut off - in case of any lingering info in memory. No diff. It is driving me nutz! I'm almost to the point again that I'll just reinstall WinXP PRO. But this is silly. There must be a diagnostic or real solution out there. Thanks for the thought, however! -- Joe "WRH" wrote: One final thought...you probably checked this already but does the problem occur when the PC is not physically connected to any network and there are no mapped drives? "Fifthgen Guy" wrote in message ... Nice thought, but nope. This is not a thing where the system is busy in any way. I have zip files turned off (use winrar) and have other overhead junk turned off. With GLINT, I can watch cpu, disk I/O, memory use, cache use, etc. All very idle. (Also use process explorer to what over all tasks and gross activity.) This is some whacko timeout thing going on. It is like explorer tries to send a message, times out, then forces the issue and things start to respond. Response times start at 60 sec., and I've seen 120 sec and I think 90 sec. Maybe there is some 30 sec. timeout and it normally takes 2. But, in any case, tain't a resource overload thing in any way. And, with all files in the same place, I can get this corrected by reinstalling winxp pro. [I have all the latest updates, merged SP2 into my winxp cd, made it bootable - which it wasn't before, so when I rebuild, I automatically have SP2 in there.] It took a while to be sure that it wasn't IExplorer. I installed firefox and found it had the exact same problems. Also, left clicking on a PDF file will fire up immediately, but sometimes, clicking on a word or excel file will take 60 or 120 sec to fire up -- and then another 60 sec to actually load the file. No disk activity, cpu activity, etc. during that time. Just the normal dribbles. This is clearly some timeout thing. With the lack of tools, I've done crazy things like creating another user to see if it is a user thing. Then, worse, I take chunks of the registry and replace it with chunks from another system, etc. Of course, this leads to disasters - but such is the life of testing with no tools... ;-) Someone in the bowels of MS knows what this is and has a quick way of verifying the problem. After all, when an interprocessor message of some sort doesn't make it and a timeout occurs, someone knows which thing is failing and probably why. That is a big part of the frustration. I have no tools to find this myself and I don't see any real help out here. Just the usual "it must be a virus", which, admittedly is very frequently the case for a lot of people. Thanks for the try, though! -- Joe "WRH" wrote: Hello Do you have .zip files in the root directories you're looking at? If so, move them to a sub-folder. (Win Xp unpacks root ..zip stuff) "Fifthgen Guy" Fifthgen wrote in message ... I've been looking for the same thing for months. Keep coming across "you must have a virus" and "your network is slow" bull. Very frustrating. It would help if I could find some tools to tell me WHY explorer is waiting, WHY a program is timing out before something happens. I see these 60 sec., 90 sec., 180 sec. delay and NOTHING is claiming to be having a problem. I have reinstalled WinXP Pro 3 times now -- cleans it up, but that is rediculous. No, my machine was not hijacked. I run glint and see NOTHING going on while it just sits. I'm a systems guy, wrote some network code, OS code, firmware, designed some hardware, so it is real frustrating that I can look at see what explorer is waiting for. No indications, no tools and no one has even hinted at a real fix. I've mashed around the registry in hopes of tripping across a solution. Nope! If I find my way back here, I'll let you know what I found, but as I said, I've been looking for months... "Mike Ferrie" wrote: Hi, I'm looking for help with a frustrating problem that has happened on my PC. Essentially the symptoms are this: 1.Opening files through Windows Explorer results in a 20 to 30 second pause before the files open. This happens on local and network drives. 2.Executable files or applications open immediately. Also files open immediately from inside the application e.g. from Excel open dialog box. 3. In explorer, right-clicking on files results in a 20-30 second delay in bringing up the menu, while with executables the menu comes up immediately. The system is XP SP2. What I have tried so far is: Reapplied the Service Pack System restore to before the problem manifested itself Disconnected and reconnected mapped drives. Any suggestions would be gratefully received before I go ahead and reinstall. Thanks |
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Reboot reboot reboot...
Thanks for the tip on the clean boot. I haven't used this diagnostic before but I'm sure I'll use it again. The results of this confuse me somewhat but at least have narrowed down the problem. With System.ini, Win.ini and Load System Services unchecked, sure enough the problem's gone. Turn System.ini back on, still OK. Turn Win.ini back on, still OK. Load System Services again, problem returns. Load System Services with all non-MS services disabled, problem is still there. I suppose the answer now is to reboot switching off the MS services one by one. Oh joy! I'll let you know. "Fifthgen Guy" wrote: Oh, that's too bad. I do have to say that HP has been VERY responsive. They've had me uninstalling, etc. They seem convinced that their software is just fine. Is your problem related to all programs/files or just MS ones? I assume that you've gone through all the virus checking stuff. I use adaware (seems to be better than norton in finding nasties), norton, spywareguard, spywareblaster and when I really want to crank down, I use sysafe to watch everything that is running. The only one not free is norton, but I'm sure you have some antivirus thing. I have tried cleaning the registry with several utilities. The best that has happened is nothing, the worst is after running norton systemwork to "correct" things, my system was not bootable and that time I really had to start all over. I'm sure that it "corrected" things that killed the system -- the system was very clean when I did this - just wanted to have a starting point where I knew everything was squeaky clean. So, be careful of some programs that will "fix you up". ;-) Try doing the "clean boot" and seeing if the problem goes away. I'm amazed that this one little program caused so much trouble. Anyway, the clean boot will shut down all non-MS stuff. You might also try a safe boot. That should be even more restrictive - for drivers and such. Yeah, I know, reboot reboot reboot... sigh If I find any more, I'll post here, of course. -- Joe B. "Mike Ferrie" wrote: Hi Joe, I got really excited when I saw your post. I fired up task manager and sure enough there it was Hpofxm07.exe. End process, right click on a file and... no difference. There were also another four processes running; Hposts07.exe, Hpoipm07.exe, Hpoevm07.exe and Hpoojd07.exe. Killed them all, still the same. Rebooted, closed the printer icon in the system tray, still the same. Removed the printer, still the same. From memory we've had trouble with HP printer software in the past, so the fact that it affected your machine is not altogether a surprise. Anyway, I'm still looking. "Fifthgen Guy" wrote: Nope - didn't add anything to the right click. Surprisingly, as I sent this last message, HP had sent me a pointer to MS VM software and told me to load it. I did, and uninstalled, reinstalled, etc. No diff. Since that program is the fax manager for the HP and I use my PC to fax, I'll just kill the sucker. [Like a water faucet, I can kill it and things will immediately start working...] I had been using this software and hardware since before I put on SP2 -- even before I went to winxp. Having this as stable software sure threw me off... -- Joe B. "da_test" wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:37:01 -0700, Fifthgen Guy wrote: OMG!!! I found this one. This time, it showed up because of a clean boot (turning off almost everything). In short, hpOFXM07.exe for my HP Officejet V40 software is the culprit. If I kill it, the problem immediately disappears. If I fire it up again, I go into the huge timeouts. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the printer software (this is the fax junk, etc, scanner software, etc. that comes with the printer). It complained that part of the install was "Unable to start the application--the Java Virtual Machine cannot be loaded." So, I'm guessing that after a do a reinstall of winxp, things would stop working properly after I had to install newer java for some program - don't remember that, so probably something automatic. But, this is a guess. I'm also guessing that the FX in the name means that this is some driver for the FAX interface - which I don't use. So, if you have this program running on your system, kill it (or close the hp printer icon in your systray) and see if your system starts working again. Just insane... but, true..?? -- Joe B. Good find ! very often, these exact symptoms are seen when an application misbehaves that has added something to the right click context menu. Uninstalling the offending program is the soution. Your HP prog didn't add anything to the right click context menu did it? Dave |
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All this time and it's a network problem. Turning off the DHCP client service
and effectively taking the machine off the network fires up right click context menus and opens files as they should with no delay. However, here's the rub. Setting a fixed IP address brings back the same old problem. It doesn't seem to be driver related. I've tried 2 different network cards (Intel and 3com) with the same outcome. What is it in Explorer that's calling the network for something before it opens a local file? Any ideas? |
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"Mike Ferrie" wrote in message
... All this time and it's a network problem. Turning off the DHCP client service and effectively taking the machine off the network fires up right click context menus and opens files as they should with no delay. However, here's the rub. Setting a fixed IP address brings back the same old problem. It doesn't seem to be driver related. I've tried 2 different network cards (Intel and 3com) with the same outcome. What is it in Explorer that's calling the network for something before it opens a local file? Any ideas? Try removing all the unneeded shortcuts in My Network Places. See the following link: http://www.ss64.com/nt/slow_browsing.html Kerry |
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Hi Joe, whatever happend to this slow down thing. After at least a year of
using XP HE this has just started on my box. After reading your conversations, it occured to me that my problem started after using some Lotus fax software on a brother fax/scanner/printer. Did you manage to resolve this as at 7 July 2005? I am frustrated as you are (were) .... eme "Fifthgen Guy" wrote: Nope - didn't add anything to the right click. Surprisingly, as I sent this last message, HP had sent me a pointer to MS VM software and told me to load it. I did, and uninstalled, reinstalled, etc. No diff. Since that program is the fax manager for the HP and I use my PC to fax, I'll just kill the sucker. [Like a water faucet, I can kill it and things will immediately start working...] I had been using this software and hardware since before I put on SP2 -- even before I went to winxp. Having this as stable software sure threw me off... -- Joe B. "da_test" wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:37:01 -0700, Fifthgen Guy wrote: OMG!!! I found this one. This time, it showed up because of a clean boot (turning off almost everything). In short, hpOFXM07.exe for my HP Officejet V40 software is the culprit. If I kill it, the problem immediately disappears. If I fire it up again, I go into the huge timeouts. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the printer software (this is the fax junk, etc, scanner software, etc. that comes with the printer). It complained that part of the install was "Unable to start the application--the Java Virtual Machine cannot be loaded." So, I'm guessing that after a do a reinstall of winxp, things would stop working properly after I had to install newer java for some program - don't remember that, so probably something automatic. But, this is a guess. I'm also guessing that the FX in the name means that this is some driver for the FAX interface - which I don't use. So, if you have this program running on your system, kill it (or close the hp printer icon in your systray) and see if your system starts working again. Just insane... but, true..?? -- Joe B. Good find ! very often, these exact symptoms are seen when an application misbehaves that has added something to the right click context menu. Uninstalling the offending program is the soution. Your HP prog didn't add anything to the right click context menu did it? Dave |
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"Mike Ferrie" wrote: Hi, I'm looking for help with a frustrating problem that has happened on my PC. Essentially the symptoms are this: 1.Opening files through Windows Explorer results in a 20 to 30 second pause before the files open. This happens on local and network drives. 2.Executable files or applications open immediately. Also files open immediately from inside the application e.g. from Excel open dialog box. 3. In explorer, right-clicking on files results in a 20-30 second delay in bringing up the menu, while with executables the menu comes up immediately. The system is XP SP2. What I have tried so far is: Reapplied the Service Pack System restore to before the problem manifested itself Disconnected and reconnected mapped drives. Any suggestions would be gratefully received before I go ahead and reinstall. Thanks Has anyone found another solution to this? I recently started experiencing the same issue on my XP Home SP2 box. Right clicking on most (not all) non-executable files produces a long 30+ second pause before the menu appears. Double-clicking these same file types gets the same very delayed response before they are finally opened in the appropriate associated application. Only change I am aware of is that I uninstalled my nVidia software, reseated the card (actually removed card to use in another system, then put back before powering back on), powered up & reinstalled the same version of the nVidia software I had been using (77.72). I do have an HP Scanner attached, but no HP software is running in taskmanager, or shown in any startup areas (registry, start menu). This is immensely annoying! I'm really hoping to avoid a complete reinstall. |
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Yes, that worked perfectly for me too. But now I don't have network access.
Ouch! "Mike Ferrie" wrote: All this time and it's a network problem. Turning off the DHCP client service and effectively taking the machine off the network fires up right click context menus and opens files as they should with no delay. However, here's the rub. Setting a fixed IP address brings back the same old problem. It doesn't seem to be driver related. I've tried 2 different network cards (Intel and 3com) with the same outcome. What is it in Explorer that's calling the network for something before it opens a local file? Any ideas? |
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I found the source of the issue (for me anyway) -- I had a shortcut on my
desktop that pointed to a shared folder on another machine. That machine had been powerd off for a while, and it seems that not having that machine on the network caused explorer to have this immense lag as long as that shortcut remained on the desktop. Either powering up the remote machine w/ the shared folder, or removing the shortcut would restore normal response times for right click and opening files which require associated applications to be started for the file to be viewed. "dave" wrote: Yes, that worked perfectly for me too. But now I don't have network access. Ouch! "Mike Ferrie" wrote: All this time and it's a network problem. Turning off the DHCP client service and effectively taking the machine off the network fires up right click context menus and opens files as they should with no delay. However, here's the rub. Setting a fixed IP address brings back the same old problem. It doesn't seem to be driver related. I've tried 2 different network cards (Intel and 3com) with the same outcome. What is it in Explorer that's calling the network for something before it opens a local file? Any ideas? |
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I'm having the same issue and I found that killing the "BTTRAY.EXE" (WIDCOMMs
Bluetooth app) process from the task manager took care of the problem. Now, I just need to find out why this was causing the problem... "Jon Kelly" wrote: "Mike Ferrie" wrote: Hi, I'm looking for help with a frustrating problem that has happened on my PC. Essentially the symptoms are this: 1.Opening files through Windows Explorer results in a 20 to 30 second pause before the files open. This happens on local and network drives. 2.Executable files or applications open immediately. Also files open immediately from inside the application e.g. from Excel open dialog box. 3. In explorer, right-clicking on files results in a 20-30 second delay in bringing up the menu, while with executables the menu comes up immediately. The system is XP SP2. What I have tried so far is: Reapplied the Service Pack System restore to before the problem manifested itself Disconnected and reconnected mapped drives. Any suggestions would be gratefully received before I go ahead and reinstall. Thanks Has anyone found another solution to this? I recently started experiencing the same issue on my XP Home SP2 box. Right clicking on most (not all) non-executable files produces a long 30+ second pause before the menu appears. Double-clicking these same file types gets the same very delayed response before they are finally opened in the appropriate associated application. Only change I am aware of is that I uninstalled my nVidia software, reseated the card (actually removed card to use in another system, then put back before powering back on), powered up & reinstalled the same version of the nVidia software I had been using (77.72). I do have an HP Scanner attached, but no HP software is running in taskmanager, or shown in any startup areas (registry, start menu). This is immensely annoying! I'm really hoping to avoid a complete reinstall. |
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Explorer Slow With Files
I came by the thread as I searched for a solution to a problem I am having
with opening folders. I click on my computer, but instead of showing my drives a little torch appears and begins searching for them. I never had this problem before until I had to reinstall Windows XP Pro and while it worked fine for a while, I installed my HP software and that's when it all went haywire. I now have to wait when trying to open my drive folders and also connecting to the internet. It makes no sense since before I reinstalled I had no problem at all even with HP....Hmmm....Very strange... "Kevin Lyons" wrote: I'm having the same issue and I found that killing the "BTTRAY.EXE" (WIDCOMMs Bluetooth app) process from the task manager took care of the problem. Now, I just need to find out why this was causing the problem... "Jon Kelly" wrote: "Mike Ferrie" wrote: Hi, I'm looking for help with a frustrating problem that has happened on my PC. Essentially the symptoms are this: 1.Opening files through Windows Explorer results in a 20 to 30 second pause before the files open. This happens on local and network drives. 2.Executable files or applications open immediately. Also files open immediately from inside the application e.g. from Excel open dialog box. 3. In explorer, right-clicking on files results in a 20-30 second delay in bringing up the menu, while with executables the menu comes up immediately. The system is XP SP2. What I have tried so far is: Reapplied the Service Pack System restore to before the problem manifested itself Disconnected and reconnected mapped drives. Any suggestions would be gratefully received before I go ahead and reinstall. Thanks Has anyone found another solution to this? I recently started experiencing the same issue on my XP Home SP2 box. Right clicking on most (not all) non-executable files produces a long 30+ second pause before the menu appears. Double-clicking these same file types gets the same very delayed response before they are finally opened in the appropriate associated application. Only change I am aware of is that I uninstalled my nVidia software, reseated the card (actually removed card to use in another system, then put back before powering back on), powered up & reinstalled the same version of the nVidia software I had been using (77.72). I do have an HP Scanner attached, but no HP software is running in taskmanager, or shown in any startup areas (registry, start menu). This is immensely annoying! I'm really hoping to avoid a complete reinstall. |
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Explorer Slow With Files
Hi,
I had this problem some time ago. It turned out that when you opened a mapped drive or a network folder, XP wanted to read through ALL of the subdirectories to get all of the information before it opened the folder. I had found the solution before, and am looking again since a new computer on my network has the problem again. The problem was also increased by allowing XP to search for all files and folders and printers on the network. All of this network traffic slows things down, especially when network places and names change and the computer cannot keep up with humans. Bill "Mike Ferrie" wrote: Hi, I'm looking for help with a frustrating problem that has happened on my PC. Essentially the symptoms are this: 1.Opening files through Windows Explorer results in a 20 to 30 second pause before the files open. This happens on local and network drives. 2.Executable files or applications open immediately. Also files open immediately from inside the application e.g. from Excel open dialog box. 3. In explorer, right-clicking on files results in a 20-30 second delay in bringing up the menu, while with executables the menu comes up immediately. The system is XP SP2. What I have tried so far is: Reapplied the Service Pack System restore to before the problem manifested itself Disconnected and reconnected mapped drives. Any suggestions would be gratefully received before I go ahead and reinstall. Thanks |
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