"My Computer" Browsing Slow

[Juice Box]

Whenever I go to My Computer, then double click "C:" my explorer window hangs for like 30 secs.... whats the deal? I tried defragging and it didnt help, am I doing something wrong here? It was fine before.

AMD XP 3000
DFI Lan party NF2
WD 80 gig Special Edition

 

[mechBgon]

Try Spybot Search & Destroy and Lavasoft Ad-Aware Personal and see if you have malware. I've seen it happen...

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Try Spybot Search & Destroy and Lavasoft Ad-Aware Personal and see if you have malware. I've seen it happen...

 

[JBDan]

AdAware SE www.lavasoftusa.com

 

[saltedeggman]

Ad-Aware SE Pro can do full system scan (found much more), and Ad-Aware 6.0 can only do smart-system scan

 

[jvarszegi]

Yep, check for spyware and BHOs. Also, do you have any humongous zip files on your system? Have you rebooted lately, especially since the last restore-from-suspend? Are there any suspicious looking processes running?

 

[JBDan]

6.0 ad-aware is no longer. You will see this when you try to update it SE is the most reliable and thorough FREE scanner out there. G-Luck

 

[Juice Box]

Im running ad aware right now, its found 65 new objects so far.... Ill let you know

 

[Juice Box]

ok its done, and i rebooted, and its still really slow to react.... anything else to try?

 

[Juice Box]

im running it again with an in depth scan, and it still has these 22 running proccesses that were in the last scan

 

[mechBgon]

Run another scan and see if the stuff stayed gone or not. Also, if your WD has an ATA cable all to itself, make sure it's jumpered for Single Drive and not Master, Slave or Cable Select.

 

[JBDan]

Delete temp intrnt files and cookies. Then defrag. See if it helps.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: digitalsnare
im running it again with an in depth scan, and it still has these 22 running proccesses that were in the last scan

What sorts of things are they?

 

[Juice Box]

and like, whenever I right click on a folder or file, it hangs for 30 seconds, then i have to re-right click it in order to get the menu

 

[JBDan]

You did update ad-aware SE to the latest build correct?

 

[Juice Box]

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/digitalsnare/ssshd.JPG thats my task manager

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Run another scan and see if the stuff stayed gone or not. Also, if your WD has an ATA cable all to itself, make sure it's jumpered for Single Drive and not Master, Slave or Cable Select.

Ill have to do this, maybe that could do it

 

[Juice Box]

ok, the drive has no jumper in, which means its on single device or master, so thats fine

 

[jbass]

i had a hardrive failure that caused the same symptoms.. the computer would take forever to boot and even longer to get to "My Computer"

luckily it was just a backup drive and once i pulled it out everything was back to normal.

 

[biostud]

check if it's in DMA mode and not PIO

 

[fuzzynavel]

does the Hard drive churn away when you do the click or is it just silent....i.e just hangs and then suddenly starts after a while?

Try running something like winamp in the background while you right click the my computer icon.....does it hang too....

What are your system specs...