Windows Explorer slow when opening folder

stamenkd · September 26th, 2003, 02:16 AM

Hi

I'm running XP Pro with SP 1 and all the updates from MS. However my windows explorer has been behaving really slowly. For example there is this one folder which whenever I click on it, Explorer freezes for about 15 secs before showing its contents.

Is this a common bug, and what can I do about it? I'll defrag today, but on my XP2100+ it really shouldnt be that slow.
Thanks

joker_927 · September 26th, 2003, 02:22 AM

are there TONS of files in the folder?

stamenkd · September 26th, 2003, 04:18 AM

13 seconds to open a folder with 30 files and 700mbs in total. Ridiculous.

NDC · September 26th, 2003, 04:22 AM

Open Task Manager and see if there are any processes that are hogging your processor. When left idle, the only process you should see using the processor is System idle Process. All others should be using less than 1% if any...

stamenkd · September 26th, 2003, 04:25 AM

explorer.exe is using up the processor which runs at 100% capacity when I click on that folder. Now what does that mean?

NDC · September 26th, 2003, 04:26 AM

How about when you don't do anything? just leave the system still and tell me what is using the processor...

stamenkd · September 26th, 2003, 04:33 AM

attached is a snapshot of my running processes

NDC · September 26th, 2003, 04:36 AM

Ok, so it only happens when you run explorer.exe... Check the properties on the explorer.exe file and tell the version and file size to the last byte...

stamenkd · September 26th, 2003, 04:39 AM

Explorer.exe
Version: 6.00.2800.1106

File size: 980 KB (1,004,032 bytes)
Size on disk: 984 KB (1,007,616 bytes)

What does that tell you?

NDC · September 26th, 2003, 04:41 AM

ok, gimme your e-mail addy.... Your version is not the most recent version.. 6.00.2800.1121 is the latest version.. and the file size is different too...