My machine:
E6750
4GB RAM
DG33BU
80GB 7200.9 Seagate Barracuda
250GB 7200.9 Seagate Barracuda
I'm seriously fed up with these pauses, sometimes when I try to open a folder, the Windows Explorer just pauses for like a second and then opens the folder (instead of being instantaneous), the thing is, it doesn't happen with every folder and it's not always predictable, usually when I close down all my windows and go to access something in my disk I get the pause or when I close a folder window and then try to open my HD from "My Computer" and I get the pause but it's not always reproducible. It's driving me mad.
I have Windows XP SP3, Vista on this very same machine works like a charm (not a single pause, Windows Explorer is snappy as hell) and Windows XP SP3 on my Mac Pro also works like a charm, what could be causing this? I've optimized and defragged with Perfect Disk and I have TuneXP with most of the tweaks (I tried disabling them but the annoying pauses were still there), I've run Registry Mechanic and CCleaner but it doesn't affect the pauses. I have no spyware or malware, I disabled Indexing and NTFS timestamp for all my partitions and reduced my startup and running processes to a minimum (all I have running on my tray is sound, forceware and windows defender).
The rest of the computer is working fine, applications open fast, drive performance seems to be ok and overall game and application performance is as expected, it's only this annoying pauses that are driving me mad... any ideas? CPU usage is 0% on an idle state (as it should be) but if it means anything I'm constantly at 100% on one core when opening folders.
Here is a video of the problem: Video
*It's harder to notice the problem without sound but take notice to the opening of "HD-XP" at the start and then later on in the video, notice the time between HD-XP turning blue and the folder actually opening.
If you need any more info just tell me.
E6750
4GB RAM
DG33BU
80GB 7200.9 Seagate Barracuda
250GB 7200.9 Seagate Barracuda
I'm seriously fed up with these pauses, sometimes when I try to open a folder, the Windows Explorer just pauses for like a second and then opens the folder (instead of being instantaneous), the thing is, it doesn't happen with every folder and it's not always predictable, usually when I close down all my windows and go to access something in my disk I get the pause or when I close a folder window and then try to open my HD from "My Computer" and I get the pause but it's not always reproducible. It's driving me mad.
I have Windows XP SP3, Vista on this very same machine works like a charm (not a single pause, Windows Explorer is snappy as hell) and Windows XP SP3 on my Mac Pro also works like a charm, what could be causing this? I've optimized and defragged with Perfect Disk and I have TuneXP with most of the tweaks (I tried disabling them but the annoying pauses were still there), I've run Registry Mechanic and CCleaner but it doesn't affect the pauses. I have no spyware or malware, I disabled Indexing and NTFS timestamp for all my partitions and reduced my startup and running processes to a minimum (all I have running on my tray is sound, forceware and windows defender).
The rest of the computer is working fine, applications open fast, drive performance seems to be ok and overall game and application performance is as expected, it's only this annoying pauses that are driving me mad... any ideas? CPU usage is 0% on an idle state (as it should be) but if it means anything I'm constantly at 100% on one core when opening folders.
Here is a video of the problem: Video
*It's harder to notice the problem without sound but take notice to the opening of "HD-XP" at the start and then later on in the video, notice the time between HD-XP turning blue and the folder actually opening.
If you need any more info just tell me.