XP Very slow when browsing folders

[Russ]

A buddy of mine is having a heck of a time browsing his files using XP.

We've clocked the exploring function at about 15-30 seconds to browse any
folder. Local or networked dosn't matter, exploring just takes a long
time.

Is there some setting that got tripped somewhere? It's a new machine with
good components but XP seems to be the problem.

Any Ideas what would be doing that?

 

[Mikael]

Hi,
I have the same problem, but even worse (it can take
minutes). Actually, I posted a question about this
problem in this NG *today* - please see: Jul 14 2003 2:00
AM (Mikael). I haven't gotten any replies this far. The
problem is very annoying indeed. I too have have a brand
new computer that should be very fast. Anybody has any
idea what's wrong? (I have tried everyting,
defragmentation etc, but nothing helps).

Mikael

 

[Russ]

So far it's like I've figured. XP is Just Win2K with too many goodies to
make it a reliable professional system.

Hope you get it fixed Mikael.

Russ