Guest Peter Posted September 18, 2007 Posted September 18, 2007 Windows XP Pro SP2. Dual 2.0 Ghz CPUs with 2 Gb of memory When I double click or select a file and press Enter it takes about 30 seconds to 1 minute for the associated program to start and load the file, same thing happes when I right click on the files to view the properties and same thing happens when I try to delete the file. When I double click on a EXE file it starts right away and when I have an attachment in the Outlook email like a zip file and I double click on it the associated program starts rigth away and loads the file. Same thing happens when I open a Zip file and double click on a file inside the zip file, the program starts and loads the file right away. The only time it is slow is when I double click on a none executable file from the Windows Explorer. Everything works fine after I reboot the computer but after couple of hours the computer goes back to being slow. I've downloaded the ShellExView from http://www.nirsoft.net/ and disabled all of the Extensions and rebooted, but same thing happed - everything was fine after the reboot, but after a while it was slow again. When I double click on a none-exe file the CPU utilization goes up about 10% and goes back down right away, the hard drive light does not keep flashing and there's no additional traffic on the network and the computer just sits for 30 seconds to 1 minute before the program starts and loads the file. Does anyone know what could be wrong or how to fix this. Thanks Peter
Guest Peter Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 Re: Slow To Load Program after Double Click "Peter" <pczurak@nospam.nospam> wrote in message news:%233DGa$i%23HHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Windows XP Pro SP2. Dual 2.0 Ghz CPUs with 2 Gb of memory > > When I double click or select a file and press Enter it takes about 30 > seconds to 1 minute for the associated program to start and load the file, > same thing happes when I right click on the files to view the properties > and same thing happens when I try to delete the file. When I double click > on a EXE file it starts right away and when I have an attachment in the > Outlook email like a zip file and I double click on it the associated > program starts rigth away and loads the file. Same thing happens when I > open a Zip file and double click on a file inside the zip file, the > program starts and loads the file right away. The only time it is slow is > when I double click on a none executable file from the Windows Explorer. > > Everything works fine after I reboot the computer but after couple of > hours the computer goes back to being slow. > I've downloaded the ShellExView from http://www.nirsoft.net/ and disabled > all of the Extensions and rebooted, but same thing happed - everything was > fine after the reboot, but after a while it was slow again. When I double > click on a none-exe file the CPU utilization goes up about 10% and goes > back down right away, the hard drive light does not keep flashing and > there's no additional traffic on the network and the computer just sits > for 30 seconds to 1 minute before the program starts and loads the file. > > > Does anyone know what could be wrong or how to fix this. > > > Thanks > > > Peter > I figured it out. I had a Fax Client installed on my machine and the fax server was recently put out of commission, so anytime I right clicked on a none executable file the Windows explorer was trying to connect to the fax server and since there was no fax server it took a while to time out, once I removed the fax client everything went back to normal.
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