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Folders and programs take very long time to open in IE (SP2)



 
 
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Old August 26th 05, 11:35 AM
Slowfolder
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Default Folders and programs take very long time to open in IE (SP2)

From the desktop, opening a folder takes a minute. Launching IE (SP2) takes
a minute. However, running MSN goes quickly, and, doing the same things from
within MSN environment run quickly.

I was unable to generate this question in a reasonable time when launching
the link for this site directly from IE. However, when launching this link
from within the MSN Explorer environment, it went very quickly.

So, what happened to the functionality of my deskop and IE SP2? How can I
fix this?
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Old August 27th 05, 10:20 AM
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Hi Slowfolder

Pretty obvious thing, yet have you defragged?

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Old August 27th 05, 01:49 PM
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Hi, Robbin, Thanks for your answer. My system is partitioned to two hard
drives. I defragged the C drive which has "NTFS" file system, and is about
182 GB in size. I did not defrag the D drive which has FAT32 and about 87%
utilization of 4.5 GB. (because the system wants 15% free space to do an
effective defrag, and I do not want to mess with the FAT32 recovery stuff).
What's fast: Launching this site from MSN (I have MSN Passport). Launching
this site from the start menu. Opening a link from the start menu, but NOT
opening a folder from the start menu. Opening a folder that is directly
addressed as a "folder" in the MSN Favorites.
What's slow: Launching this site from a desktop shortcut. Opening a
desktop folder. Opening a folder by a shortcut to the folder from within the
MSN Favorites area. (Seems to invoke the Explorer functionaility, which is
not working properly).



"robbin" wrote:

Hi Slowfolder

Pretty obvious thing, yet have you defragged?


 




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