mcupp wrote:
> Problems I am having is....
>
> Moving Files from Folder to folder takes as long as 30 minutes ( files under
> 500 mb)
> Same issue trashing items
> COM Surrogate issues causing windows to restart.
> General freezing when opening IE
> That is just a few of them....
>
> Inspiron E1505, Intel Core Duoprocessor T2350 (2MB/1.86GHz/ 533MHz)
> 1GB, DDR2, 533MHz
> 256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 HyperMemory
> 120GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
Okay I snipped some to remove the irrelevant.
One thing that seemed to help here was right click on drive icon, go
properties and remove the check mark in "Index this drive". It did
nothing to speed up searching but did slow the disk access horrendously.
May not be relevant but worth a try since it costs nothing
Was this a nbew install or an update, I don't see where you mentioned
that. If not new then there may be a problem from something that was
there before. Don't know what to suggest for that to be positive unless
you have a spare drive to try a clean install on.
There has been some discussion to the effect that Windows Explorer is
real slow in some cases. It is for me, it seems it just "Is" for some
people and there doesn't seem to be an MS explanation for it. What you
could try though is visit the maker's websites (Motherboard, any other
boards etc) and see if there are any newer drivers available. My chipset
IO seems much worse with the original supplied drivers, but of course
new is not always "Better" with chip drivers.
I see a lot of the revolving circle icon (Hourglass). God only know's
what it is doing, there's no disk access visible etc, but usually this
doen not cripple performace. Sometimes it does but not always.
You might try an explorer substitute and see if that improves things.