The Save/Save As Window Hangs

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sandy_aquarius

Hi Group,
All of a sudden this problem has rolled in,
When i try to save a file or save as,
and i click on drop down menu to select the folder/drive.
It hangs and takes 30 seconds so to do that,
and after i select the drive/folder, it will again take good time
to display its contents, this is been happening with ONLY save/save as
window in
Windows XP home.
i have 1 drive C of 80 GB memory.
Any suggestions ?
Sandy.
 
Hi Group,
All of a sudden this problem has rolled in,
When i try to save a file or save as,
and i click on drop down menu to select the folder/drive.
It hangs and takes 30 seconds so to do that,
and after i select the drive/folder, it will again take good time
to display its contents, this is been happening with ONLY save/save as
window in
Windows XP home.
i have 1 drive C of 80 GB memory.
Any suggestions ?
Sandy.
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80 gb of memory??? Maybe you have an 80 gig hard drive.

Several things could be causing your problem. Possibly a virus or spyware,
possibly a dearth of RAM which would cause the program to use the swap file
excessively.

Do Start > Settings > Control Panel and double click the System icon. Look
on the General tab and see how much RAM you have. 256 mb is barely
adequate for XP, 512 mb is much better.
 
Hi Ernie,
Thanks for your help.
Yes, its 80GB Hard Drive.
Well i have 512 MB RAM,
But what i did additional few days back, is, i increased virtual memory
to 2000 MB - 3000 MB
Can that be a problem?
Also, i have a pirated Norton Antivirus 2005, that is fully functional
and updated.
Is it OK to have a pirated software of Norton,
OR to have best performance we must buy a licenced software from market.
 
From: "sandy_aquarius" <[email protected]>

| Hi Ernie,
| Thanks for your help.
| Yes, its 80GB Hard Drive.
| Well i have 512 MB RAM,
| But what i did additional few days back, is, i increased virtual memory
| to 2000 MB - 3000 MB
| Can that be a problem?
| Also, i have a pirated Norton Antivirus 2005, that is fully functional
| and updated.
| Is it OK to have a pirated software of Norton,
| OR to have best performance we must buy a licenced software from market.

No -- It NOT OK to have pirated software. Many pirated software contain Trojans and it
certainly is wrong to pirate software.

Also, I wouldn't suggest having such a large VM size. It should be the size of the physical
RAM and if you need more, then I suggest buying and installing more physical RAM.


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm


* * * Please report back your results * * *
 
sandy_aquarius said:
Hi Ernie,
Thanks for your help.
Yes, its 80GB Hard Drive.
Well i have 512 MB RAM,
But what i did additional few days back, is, i increased virtual memory
to 2000 MB - 3000 MB
Can that be a problem?
Click to expand...

Normally a swap file should be about 2x memory, and no more.

Yes, this could be part of the problem.

Have you checked event viewer for any errors? Have you ruled out a
potential problem with a hard disk going south and having bad blocks?

Also, i have a pirated Norton Antivirus 2005, that is fully functional
and updated.
Is it OK to have a pirated software of Norton,
OR to have best performance we must buy a licenced software from
market.
Click to expand...

Is it OK? Um... that'd be a double no. Best performance is obtained
with most things other than Norton, a) and b) software piracy is
illegal, and isn't something anyone here should be condoning or
encouraging. Especially when there are free antivirus programs out
there that are better and less of a drag on the system.
 
Hi Ernie,
Thanks for your help.
Yes, its 80GB Hard Drive.
Click to expand...

You're welcome.
Well i have 512 MB RAM,
But what i did additional few days back, is, i increased virtual memory
to 2000 MB - 3000 MB
Can that be a problem?
Click to expand...

Quite definitely. I think that David Lipman and Todd H. answered that
question.
Also, i have a pirated Norton Antivirus 2005, that is fully functional
and updated.
Is it OK to have a pirated software of Norton,
OR to have best performance we must buy a licenced software from market.
Click to expand...
Pirated software is a definite no-no. Aside from the morality of theft,
the guys/gals who write the software like to get paid so that they can pay
their bills. Personally I think that most recent Norton software doesn't
work very well but that's your choice to make.
 
sandy_aquarius said:
Also, i have a pirated Norton Antivirus 2005, that is fully functional
and updated.
Is it OK to have a pirated software of Norton,
OR to have best performance we must buy a licenced software from market.
Click to expand...

Sandy,

Your mother taught you better than that, didn't she? <grin>

If you currently have no AV protection, download one of the free AV
apps, and then investigate your options:

AVG - Grisoft
(http://www.grisoft.com/doc/Programs/lng/us/tpl/tpl01)
Avast! - ALWIL Software
(http://www.avast.com/eng/programs.html)
AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic
(http://www.free-av.com/)

All of the above AV apps may be upgraded to a
Professional/Full-Featured AV app for a fee.

Some General Anti-Virus info:
(http://home.neo.rr.com/manna4u/virusprevention.html)
(http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html)

In order to switch or even evaluate another AV, you MUST completely
remove NAV. Some info about removing AV apps (particularly NAV):

(http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=5233)

Before you install ANY AV application, make sure that you acquire all
information/tools/utilities that are necessary for its COMPLETE removal.

Ron :)
 
Ernie B. said:
Pirated software is a definite no-no. Aside from the morality of theft,
the guys/gals who write the software like to get paid so that they can pay
their bills. Personally I think that most recent Norton software doesn't
work very well but that's your choice to make.
Click to expand...

Good point.

Hell, legitimate licensees have enough trouble keeping Live Update
working, and recognizing that a given piece of software is activated!
LOL.
 
Is it OK to have a pirated software of Norton,
Click to expand...

Well, it's illegal.
But I wouldn't pay for Norton... I wouldn't use it at all.
OR to have best performance we must buy a licenced software from market.
Click to expand...

It's the same program, how can the performance differ?

I suspect you have the standard Windows problem that the built-
in file indexing is trying to do too much. In older Windows it
was handled by a utility called FastFind that you could switch
off. Dunno what handles it in XP (or 2000, come to that).
 
Hello sandy_aquarius,

Indexing service turned off?
Should be auto started.
Look at Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services.

Defragment drives?

Defragment Registry?
Tune Up Utilies 2006 has a good registry cleaner and defragmenter.
Also Ace Utilies.

Any luck?

s> Hi Group,
s> All of a sudden this problem has rolled in,
s> When i try to save a file or save as,
s> and i click on drop down menu to select the folder/drive.
s> It hangs and takes 30 seconds so to do that,
s> and after i select the drive/folder, it will again take good time
s> to display its contents, this is been happening with ONLY save/save
s> as
s> window in
s> Windows XP home.
s> i have 1 drive C of 80 GB memory.
s> Any suggestions ?
s> Sandy.
GALAracunala
http://free-st.t-com.hr/GALAracunala/
 
GALAracunala - 12.02.2006 11:29 :
s> Hi Group,
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are you the first time posting in newsgroups or posting in this newsgroup?

Please configure your newsclient to right quoting-markers ">> " as usual
in usent - see other normal posting behavior. Your quoting markers are
confusing and make postings especially within longer threads harder to
read. THX in advance for your kind understanding. BTW a wish: try bottom
posting instead of TOFU (test over full quoting). THX.
 
Hi Dave,

Thanks for your support,
I have done it,
But i wonder why the companies like Trend and McCafee let us use their
definitions using a software like AV for free?

Sandy
 
From: "sandy_aquarius" <[email protected]>

| Hi Dave,
|
| Thanks for your support,
| I have done it,
| But i wonder why the companies like Trend and McCafee let us use their
| definitions using a software like AV for free?
|
| Sandy

The Multi AV Scanning Tool is not a full implementation of anti virus. It only allows "On
Demand" scanning while a fully installed pacjkage provide "One Demand" and "On Access"
scanning. It is "On Access" scanning toat provides protection against viruses.
 
Hi what is "On Access" Scanning?
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Fikes are scanned whenever attempts are made to run, open, copy or
move them (though not necessarily all those).... in other words
_access_ them. The same thing as "realtime monitor".

This is in contrast to "on-demand" scanning whereby the use chooses
to scan certain files, folders, or drives.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
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