Theres a 45 second pause when I click clear history in IE and clear recent documents

[Compddd]

This started happening recently, I reformatted and reinstalled everything, and the problem came back after a couple hours. When I click clear history or clear recently opened documents, theres a long 45 second pause with the hour glass waiting symbol. Then it does the action, and after I clear the recently opened documents it pauses for 45 seconds each time I hit the ok button to get out of WinXP toolbar. This has never happened to me till recently and shouldnt be happening on a system like mine. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated, thanks!

 

[Fiveohhh]

Mine doesn't do it....I'll trade ya

 

[Compddd]

Whats wrong with this stupid thing

 

[chsh1ca]

You have a crapload of files in there and it takes some time for it to load the file list, and process the erase, and update the IE cache DB?

 

[ginfest]

I noticed the same on my machine. After some trial and error I noticed that it only does this when my software firewall is enabled. Disable the fw and viola, back to instantaneous deletion of the history.


Mike G