Arfur Million wrote:
> On 30 Aug, 22:59, "Rich Barry" <rba...@socal.rr.com> wrote:
>> You may have a problem with a driver or malware. You can try it from
>> Safe Mode and
>> see if it happens. Tap F8 on next startup and select Safe Mode when
>> the menu appears.
>> Also, have you checked for Malware. If not you can use Spybot Search
>> and Destroy
>> and Adaware to check. Do a google search for each. Get the free
>> versions.
>>
>> "Arfur Million" <arfur_mill...********.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:JuFBi.2089$F77.1028@newsfe4-win.ntli.net...
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I've got a new problem in "My Computer" (the version you get when hitting
>>> <Microsoft-E> not the one on the Desktop). It has been working well for
>>> many months up until a couple of weeks ago, but now when I click on "Local
>>> Disk (C:)" (in the left pane) it just hangs for about two minutes, and
>>> then it returns with the contents of the drive, and response after that is
>>> back to good. I've run diagnostics on the C drive and it looks fine. I
>>> haven't made any hardware changes recently, and the only software ones I
>>> can think of are Windows updates. There are no problems when I use the
>>> single-pane version of Explorer from the desktop, but I prefer the two
>>> panes. Any ideas as to what could be causing the problem?
>
> Rich,
>
> Thanks for the reply: I get the same symptoms in Safe Mode, and I've
> run fulls scans with Symantec, Spybot and XoftSpy but to no avail.
> I've also run the sfc utility but that reported no problems. It is a
> strange one, especially as everything else with regards to the disk
> seems OK.
>
> Regards,
> Arfur
>
>

When was the last time you did a clean up and defrag? When I say "clean
up" I mean with a proper tool like Crap Cleaner, not XP's lame clean up.

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