Windows xp explorer searching for items slow

If your on windows 98 and have 50mb Ram that would def slow things down :0 Has you game been crashing? Have you tried cleaning your temp files. CCLeaner google it. You ever defragged your comp? Could be a million reasons why a computer goes slow. Bad sectors causes slow hard drive access. Then checking your hard drive for error will isolated it. I think your computer need to be optimized, you can try glary utilities.

It may help you. I think you need to format your computer to make it back to normal. I think jaydee is on to something. Start with chkdsk and defrag to isolate this problem. I'm not having ANY problems with my games You are saying "Windows Explorer" this can run slow if one of your drives is defective local, removable, or network drive Are you sure you don't mean "Internet Explorer" which is completely different.

This one is driven for the most part by your internet connection. Im seriously at a loss at this point. How do I stop Feature update from installing. Skip to main content.

Find threads, tags, and users Current Visibility: Visible to all users. DISM did not help, you offer me to reinstall windows? No, it is a repair installation.

You will not loss anything through repair installation. Best regards,. Hello, Try resetting File Explorer explorer. CPL in Run. Click OK or press Enter key. Then in the same window, under Virtual memory, click Settings button. Reboot the machine and see if issue is resolved now. Let us know if this helps! Have alredy all that you told on. Any other suggestions? Comment Show 0. Hi, Just checking in to see if the information provided was helpful. Best regards, Sylvia. Switch to the Tools tab and locate Error-checking there.

Click the Check now button. Depending on your setup, you may not be able to scan the disk while Windows is running. Accept the suggestion to run scan disk on the next startup instead. Reboot your computer afterwards. If scan disk found errors and was able to correct them, you may want to try again accessing the folder. If that resolved the issue congratulations, if not read on. You can also try and defragment the hard drive to speed things up a bit.

This only works if you have a conventional platter based hard drive and not a Solid State Drive. You should also make sure that the drive is not filled to the brim. You also want to make sure that your system is not running at its capacities right now. If you see cpu usage or memory at the maximum you should investigate that issue first.

Maybe you have too many programs open at the same time, or run a program like a video editing tool that needs all the resources it can get, leaving little for the remaining system. The same is true for the hard drive in question. If you have lots of read and write operations on the drive, it may slow down the opening of folders, even more so if the drive is not the fastest hard drive.

Before you make any changes, restart the computer and try accessing the folder right after the new start of the system. Is it opening faster or as slow as before? Take a good look at the folder.

How many files are stored in it? Hundreds, thousands, more than that? One thing that I'd try if the folder contains a lot of files is to split the files up in two different folders, to see if that fixes the lags.

What types of files are in that folder? One thing that is helping a lot of Windows users is to check the folder optimization preference to see if the automatic optimization got it right. This is available under Windows 7 and newer versions of Windows. Right-click the folder in Windows Explorer and select Properties.

Switch to the Customize tab and check the Optimize this folder for setting. You should select General Items if mixed file types are located in the folder, for instance if you have documents, executable files and music in that folder. If you have only one type of files in that folder, you should select the appropriate type if available, for instance videos if the folder contains only video files.

You can alternatively move files out of the folder that do not belong there, for instance a single video file if all other files are mp3 files. Select the new optimization option and click on Ok afterwards. Access the folder in Windows Explorer to see if the change got rid of the lags that you experienced when opening the folder. You may also want to test to see if the General optimization option fixes the issue, regardless of files in the folder. Malware on the system is another possibility.

I suggest you run different security applications to check your system for malware that your standard antivirus solution might have missed. Indexing is another area that you may want to investigate.

Click the start orb and enter indexing in the start menu search form. This opens the Indexing Options that highlight all folders that are included in the indexing. Check if your folder or the drive your folder is located on is listed there. If it is remove if, unless you need to be able to search the files of that folder regularly. Even if you do, I suggest you disable indexing temporarily to see if it resolves the slow folder issues. You can disable indexing completely under Windows Services.

I can't put my finger on a particular event that triggered it. New information as of January 18, I finally gave up and re-imaged my computer. The problem went away Then it came back. So, the next day, I uninstalled SP3, and the problem went away again. Based on the above, I believe that SP3 is the cause of the problem. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

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