Head on over to Kelly's Korner. Click on Tweaks on the top right hand side of the page. Then, scroll about half way down the list on the right hand side until you find Prevent Delay in Opening My Computer/Explorer and click on it and run it. Worked great for me.
Sorry it didn't work for you. Do you have indexing enabled? Windows XP keeps a record of all files on the hard disk so when you do a search on the hard drive it is faster. There is a downside to this and because the computer has to index all files, it will slow down normal file commands like open, close, etc. If you do not do a whole lot of searches on your hard drive then you may want to turn this feature
off:
Open My Computer.
Right-click your hard drive icon and select Properties.
At the bottom of the window you'll see "Allow indexing service to index this disk for
faster searches," uncheck this and click ok.
A new window will pop up and select Apply to all folders and subfolders.
It will take a minute or two for the changes to take affect but then you should enjoy
slightly faster performance.
I already had indexing disabled on both my hard drives. It's such a strange problem - searching on google hasn't revealed anyone with the same problem as this. There are people who have found that explorer.exe uses 100% CPU during idle time, or every 10 minutes etc, but nobody has this problem of a Windows Explorer window freezing on opening.
I really don't want to have to reinstall windows or anything. I mean, it's annoying, but I can't be bothered with the hassle of a re-install.
joyabird
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December 6th, 2003 03:00
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp.htm
Head on over to Kelly's Korner. Click on Tweaks on the top right hand side of the page. Then, scroll about half way down the list on the right hand side until you find Prevent Delay in Opening My Computer/Explorer and click on it and run it. Worked great for me.
sabbath180
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December 6th, 2003 14:00
joyabird
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December 6th, 2003 16:00
off:
Open My Computer.
Right-click your hard drive icon and select Properties.
At the bottom of the window you'll see "Allow indexing service to index this disk for
faster searches," uncheck this and click ok.
A new window will pop up and select Apply to all folders and subfolders.
It will take a minute or two for the changes to take affect but then you should enjoy
slightly faster performance.
sabbath180
6 Posts
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December 6th, 2003 21:00
I already had indexing disabled on both my hard drives. It's such a strange problem - searching on google hasn't revealed anyone with the same problem as this. There are people who have found that explorer.exe uses 100% CPU during idle time, or every 10 minutes etc, but nobody has this problem of a Windows Explorer window freezing on opening.
I really don't want to have to reinstall windows or anything. I mean, it's annoying, but I can't be bothered with the hassle of a re-install.
joyabird
168 Posts
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December 6th, 2003 22:00