Re: Starting Windows Explorer causes my laptop to slow to a crawl

This is extremely strange. Windows Explorer and My Computer are both run from the same process although their behavior is slightly different (Explorer.exe).

And for both laptops to exhibit the same behavior is also extremely strange.

Did you install or connect any programs/drivers/hardware/peripherals/extenders or ? on both systems during the period just before this started happening?

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"Luther393" <Luther393@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:19B88605-1805-492C-80BF-483AA547463E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have two Dell laptops, both running Windows Media Center 2005. A few weeks
ago my Inspiron 6000 started to respond extremely slowly when starting
Explorer to copy files. (It takes 6-8 minutes for it to even appear on
screen). In the meantime, everything else is "frozen" as well. I end up
having to power down and restart to do anything. If I don't use Explorer, the
PC runs fine: this includes internet access, MS Office programs, graphics
programs, utility scans, etc. It's just Explorer that's the problem. If I use
"My Computer" I am able to do what I need to do, so that's been my
work-around lately and it appears to function okay. The other day I started
up Explorer (w/o thinking) and it popped up and ran fine. Thinking it was
okay now, I started it a second time to check it out and this time it ran
slowly as previously mentioned. After 15 minutes I powered down.
The older Dell Latitude started doing the same thing about the same time as
the Inspiron. The laptops are an older Latitude P3 650 MHz (512MB RAM, 20GB
HD) and the other is a newer Inspiron Centrino 1.6 GHz (512MB RAM, 40GB HD).
All MS updates, including the batch on 10/10/06, have been installed w/o a
problem.
I'm running Panda Titanium Antivirus, CounterSpy, and Spyware Doctor (latest
updates installed) on both machines and none found any viruses or spyware on
either laptop when the full system was scanned. I tried XP Repair Pro 2006
and RegCure but neither helped solve the problem.
I'm not having any problems on my Dell desktop, but it's running Win XP Pro
SP-2, also with all updates. Don't know if that's any different behind the
scenes.
I'm stumped as to the cause, and thus the fix. Any thoughts or ideas on a
fix are greatly appreciated.
.

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