Re: "My Computer" takes ages to respond when clicking on C drive, then behaves normally

On 30 Aug, 22:59, "Rich Barry" <rba...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You may have a problem with a driver or malware. You can try it from
Safe Mode and
see if it happens. Tap F8 on next startup and select Safe Mode when
the menu appears.
Also, have you checked for Malware. If not you can use Spybot Search
and Destroy
and Adaware to check. Do a google search for each. Get the free
versions.

"Arfur Million" <arfur_mill...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Hello,

I've got a new problem in "My Computer" (the version you get when hitting
<Microsoft-E> not the one on the Desktop). It has been working well for
many months up until a couple of weeks ago, but now when I click on "Local
Disk (C:)" (in the left pane) it just hangs for about two minutes, and
then it returns with the contents of the drive, and response after that is
back to good. I've run diagnostics on the C drive and it looks fine. I
haven't made any hardware changes recently, and the only software ones I
can think of are Windows updates. There are no problems when I use the
single-pane version of Explorer from the desktop, but I prefer the two
panes. Any ideas as to what could be causing the problem?


Rich,

Thanks for the reply: I get the same symptoms in Safe Mode, and I've
run fulls scans with Symantec, Spybot and XoftSpy but to no avail.
I've also run the sfc utility but that reported no problems. It is a
strange one, especially as everything else with regards to the disk
seems OK.

Regards,
Arfur


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