My Vista Explorer is so slow

A while back, when SP1 was available, I did a clean load of Vista with SP1.
Opening my explorer was nearly instant and opening large directories or big
network drives was done in a split second.
Now when i want to open even a small directory on my local drives I see the
rotating hour glas for quite a while before the folder contents is
displayed. Opening a large directory or a network drive can take half a
minute, sometimes even longer.
I have no idea why this happened and how to get it back to how it was
before. I hardly ever install any new appliations on the pc and try to keep
it fairly clean.
I sure would appreciate any suggestions and comments that helps me figuring
out what's wrong with my system.
I have a Thinkpad T42 with 2GB of memory and a fast hard disk. Vista
Business 32, SP1 and all the recent windows update.
Thanks for your reply.

"Gerd" <> wrote in message
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>A while back, when SP1 was available, I did a clean load of Vista with SP1.
>Opening my explorer was nearly instant and opening large directories or big
>network drives was done in a split second.
> Now when i want to open even a small directory on my local drives I see
> the rotating hour glas for quite a while before the folder contents is
> displayed. Opening a large directory or a network drive can take half a
> minute, sometimes even longer.
> I have no idea why this happened and how to get it back to how it was
> before. I hardly ever install any new appliations on the pc and try to
> keep it fairly clean.
> I sure would appreciate any suggestions and comments that helps me
> figuring out what's wrong with my system.
> I have a Thinkpad T42 with 2GB of memory and a fast hard disk. Vista
> Business 32, SP1 and all the recent windows update.
> Thanks for your reply.


> Opening a large directory or a network drive can take half a minute,
> sometimes even longer.

From my experience with Vista Ult. I can say that with time
and installation of many additional application on your
computer it is inevitable that PC / laptop will be slower.
The only solution is in this circumstances to keep
application and size of folders to bare minimum.

Check also your AV background operations. These
may slow down your laptop noticeably. The last
but not least - be patient. It takes some time to
open large files or folders.

If it is that slow, you may have malware, run scans & see.

"Gerd" <> wrote in message
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>A while back, when SP1 was available, I did a clean load of Vista with SP1.
>Opening my explorer was nearly instant and opening large directories or big
>network drives was done in a split second.
> Now when i want to open even a small directory on my local drives I see
> the rotating hour glas for quite a while before the folder contents is
> displayed. Opening a large directory or a network drive can take half a
> minute, sometimes even longer.
> I have no idea why this happened and how to get it back to how it was
> before. I hardly ever install any new appliations on the pc and try to
> keep it fairly clean.
> I sure would appreciate any suggestions and comments that helps me
> figuring out what's wrong with my system.
> I have a Thinkpad T42 with 2GB of memory and a fast hard disk. Vista
> Business 32, SP1 and all the recent windows update.
> Thanks for your reply.

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:42:35 -0700, Gerd wrote:

> A while back, when SP1 was available, I did a clean load of Vista with SP1.
> Opening my explorer was nearly instant and opening large directories or big
> network drives was done in a split second.
> Now when i want to open even a small directory on my local drives I see the
> rotating hour glas for quite a while before the folder contents is
> displayed. Opening a large directory or a network drive can take half a
> minute, sometimes even longer.
> I have no idea why this happened and how to get it back to how it was
> before. I hardly ever install any new appliations on the pc and try to keep
> it fairly clean.
> I sure would appreciate any suggestions and comments that helps me figuring
> out what's wrong with my system.
> I have a Thinkpad T42 with 2GB of memory and a fast hard disk. Vista
> Business 32, SP1 and all the recent windows update.
> Thanks for your reply.

Help! My Computer is slow!
http://miekiemoes.blogspot.com/2008/...r-is-slow.html

check for viruses..try avas

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Thanks for your reply. I already ckecked for malware and spyware.

I also defrag regularly and have the same anti-virus for the longest time.

"Not Even Me" <> wrote in message
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> If it is that slow, you may have malware, run scans & see.
>
> "Gerd" <> wrote in message
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>>A while back, when SP1 was available, I did a clean load of Vista with
>>SP1. Opening my explorer was nearly instant and opening large directories
>>or big network drives was done in a split second.
>> Now when i want to open even a small directory on my local drives I see
>> the rotating hour glas for quite a while before the folder contents is
>> displayed. Opening a large directory or a network drive can take half a
>> minute, sometimes even longer.
>> I have no idea why this happened and how to get it back to how it was
>> before. I hardly ever install any new appliations on the pc and try to
>> keep it fairly clean.
>> I sure would appreciate any suggestions and comments that helps me
>> figuring out what's wrong with my system.
>> I have a Thinkpad T42 with 2GB of memory and a fast hard disk. Vista
>> Business 32, SP1 and all the recent windows update.
>> Thanks for your reply.
>
>

Thanks for your reply.

Virus should not be an issue as i have an up-to-date symantec anti-virus
corporate edition running on my server and all clients.

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> check for viruses..try avast
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