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willhandley
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      08-27-2007
This does not happen every time, but frequently enough to be annoying. I
click on one of the little triangles in the folder tree in the left-hand pane
to expand a folder, and nothing happens; I get the spinning circle icon and
it sits there for a very long time before finally expanding. I've learned
that I can go ahead and drill down in the right-hand pane while this is going
on, but I'd like to turn off whatever new "feature" is causing this. There's
no physical reason this should happen; this is a Dell Precision 690 with 4
gigs of memory and a very fast 10K-rpm hard drive. When the folders do
expand right away, which is most of the time, it is instantaneous. Running
Vista Ultimate x64.
 
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maharaja.aaron@gmail.com
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      08-27-2007
My suggestion is to change the pagefile allocation on your harddrive.
Also you might have a number of programs that run in the background.
Windows Vista comes with Windows defender. From Defender try to
disable some of the programs you don't need starting up.

There is a good tutorial about the pagefile stuff here:

http://ineedcomputerhelp.blogspot.com/


 
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Mhzjunkie
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      08-27-2007
willhandley spewed out this bit, and i'll scatter a few bits myself:

> This does not happen every time, but frequently enough to be
> annoying. I click on one of the little triangles in the folder tree
> in the left-hand pane to expand a folder, and nothing happens; I get
> the spinning circle icon and it sits there for a very long time
> before finally expanding. I've learned that I can go ahead and drill
> down in the right-hand pane while this is going on, but I'd like to
> turn off whatever new "feature" is causing this. There's no physical
> reason this should happen; this is a Dell Precision 690 with 4 gigs
> of memory and a very fast 10K-rpm hard drive. When the folders do
> expand right away, which is most of the time, it is instantaneous.
> Running Vista Ultimate x64.


My setup did this same thing, it was caused by my SATA drivers getting
fouled up in some way or another. I suspect because I allowed windows update
to update my nvidia drivers with the one that windows update provides. Look
for "nvstor32 errors" or "nvstor errors" in the event viewer. I reinstall my
SATA drivers with the ones from Nvidia website to clear my problem up.

I would imagine this could also be caused by something using 100% of your
CPU as well. You can check that using the "Task Manager".

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