Windows XP: My Documents Uber Slow Opening

From: EuanB (edbrodie_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/10/04 

Date: 10 Feb 2004 07:17:13 -0800

Hi All, have been trying to fix a problem with my computer for a few
weeks now. Its not really a big thing, but more frustrating.

The problem is whenever I open explorer and click on the My Documents
folder, it then goes away for about 20-30 seconds before finally
displaying the contents. If I click any other folder off of the main
path e.g. Program Files, Documents and Settings everything update fine
with the smallest of delays. I've also tried accessing My Docs within
a command prompt and that worked a treat with no delay either.

I've done a spot of googling and changed one of the registry settings
that relates to Networking, I'm assuming since the My Docs folder
thats easily available is actually a symbolic link in reality. I've
also disabled a sound effect that apparently is linked to opening
folders to no avail. Beyond that I've also turned off indexing,
turned off the auto search for network shares!

Now I'm hoping that someone with huge WindXP kudos can help as I'm now
stuck!

For Info spec is:
Athlon XP 2400
1 GB Corsair RAM
Western Digital 120GB HDD
GeForce 3 Ti
(other peripherals also)

Windows XP + SP1 installed and up todate as of last weekend.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. 

-- 
________
Euan

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