Re: Explorer slow to find drives after Cameras installed

They're camera shy <G>.

Are there any yellow question marks in Device Manager? Right click on
the My Computer icon on your Desktop and select Properties,
Hardware,Device Manager. If yes what is the Device Error code?

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in
the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No
Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate which also appear in
a previous boot.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer.

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~DocProc2007 wrote:
After connceting any camera device, including via USB or Firewire,
Windows Explorer takes an exceedingly long time to locate the drives.
The flashlight icon searches for up to 1-2 minutes before the drives
on 'My Computer' are displayed. Removing the device does not correct
the problem. The problem also occurs when trying to locate files from
within a program ,such as Word etc. It seems as though it is trying
to refresh or searching for the drives again each time it is opened.

This problem does not occur when :
Using the Network Explorer 'My Network Places', including opening a
drive on the same computer that is shared
Booting Windows in Safe mode
Before a camera or Video is connected.
When other devices, such as external drives or PCI cards are
conncected

A System Restore to a time before the connnection solves the problem,
but the camera is no longer installed! Scanner and Camera Wizard
appears to take a long time to open. I am wondering if there is a
problem with this program that is altering a system file?

I am running XP Home SP2, recieve regular updates and AVG Antivirus.
The Registry has been cleaned

Any Ideas appreciated


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