Windows XP Glacially slow Explorer

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I'm using Win XP Home (SP1) on this Athlon 1800 PC (1 GB). Simple operations like moving up a folder tree are beginning to take forever. This is a problem that I've raised before over the years in various newsgroups and forums. Sometimes it sort of gets back to tolerable speed, other times like now it's glacial. Inconsistent too. Sometimes, once I've managed to open a large folder (30 secs isn't unusual), subsequently opening its subfolders is at the normal brisk speed.

Taking it as read that I do all the 'obvious' stuff (like defragmenting, regular deletion of temporary files, etc), does anyone have any thoughts on a possible cause please?

I've used FileMon and RegMon occasionally to look for clues, but no real success. There's so much info presented by these tools...

From time to time I've wondered whether maybe Norton Unerase (part of SystemWorks 2002) could be implicated, but don't want to uninstall it unless I have some evidence, as it's sometimes quite handy when I've accidentally deleted an important file and the Recycle Bin hasn't caught it.

Any advice would be much appreciated please.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK
 
OK norton takes up massive amounts of resources and is poo imho
Just ry disabling it for now. Also try a program called ccleaner to look at your system for registry problems and alike. it is free!

http://www.ccleaner.com/

im sure theres lots of other stuff that can be done but just try those for now let us know how u get on?
 
Thanks, appreciate the help.

Re Norton, the only serious use I make of it as I mentioned is as a last resort unerase tool. Do you know of a free alternative?

I run CCleaner daily.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK
 
I use AVG free edition although a few here will frown I find it more than ample and aslong as you keep ontop of your updates and run other alternative stuff other than norton i think your covered ive never had a prblem with stuff really only cookies and stuff so give it a try ?
 
I use AVG Free too.

Anyone know of a free alternative to Norton Unerase?

Back on the main topic, anyone with any ideas about the cause of the inconsistent Explorer performance hit please?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK
 
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