windows explorer freezing when deleting

[Guest Anandajoti]

Dear Friends,

 

For a couple of weeks now I have been experiencing a problem when deleting

files in windows explorer (and in Free commander, which I also use).

 

Every time I try to delete a file explorer freezes up and I have to

eventually close it with task maanger. When I restart the file(s) have

actually been deleted, but of course it's a nuisance every time I need to

delete something.

 

I have XP home edition for more than one year and have not been experiencing

this problem before. I have checked for spyware/malware but everything

appears to be clean. If anyone has any suggestions I would be most grateful...

[Guest Malke]

Re: windows explorer freezing when deleting

 

Anandajoti wrote:

> Dear Friends,

>

> For a couple of weeks now I have been experiencing a problem when deleting

> files in windows explorer (and in Free commander, which I also use).

>

> Every time I try to delete a file explorer freezes up and I have to

> eventually close it with task maanger. When I restart the file(s) have

> actually been deleted, but of course it's a nuisance every time I need to

> delete something.

>

> I have XP home edition for more than one year and have not been

> experiencing this problem before. I have checked for spyware/malware but

> everything appears to be clean. If anyone has any suggestions I would be

> most grateful...

 

Some ideas:

 

1. How much space is left on your hard drive? If the drive is too full, this

could cause the issue. Address this.

 

2. Do you do the normal maintenance of emptying your Temporary Internet/Temp

folders? If not, this could be the cause of the issue. Address this.

 

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Maintenance

http://aumha.org/a/health.htm - Take Out the Trash

 

3. How are you deleting the files? If by right-clicking to get the context

menu, a third-party program may have insinuated itself into the context

menu and is causing the problem. Use the free ShellExView program to manage

context menus:

 

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers -

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

Right click causes an error and crashes Explorer.exe after installing

Windows XP SP2 - http://www.winxptutor.com/sp2/divxcrash.htm

Manage the context-menu entries for folders, drives and Namespace objects -

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/context_folders.htm

 

Malke

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MS-MVP

Elephant Boy Computers

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com

Don't Panic!

[Guest Anandajoti]

Re: windows explorer freezing when deleting

 

Dear Malke,

 

Thanks for your kind response. I eventually used System restore to back the

computer up a couple of weeks (it took more than one go at this to get back

far enough), so I can't try out your suggestions, but will bear them in mind

in case the problem re-emerges. Thanks!

 

"Malke" wrote:

> Anandajoti wrote:

>

> > Dear Friends,

> >

> > For a couple of weeks now I have been experiencing a problem when deleting

> > files in windows explorer (and in Free commander, which I also use).

> >

> > Every time I try to delete a file explorer freezes up and I have to

> > eventually close it with task maanger. When I restart the file(s) have

> > actually been deleted, but of course it's a nuisance every time I need to

> > delete something.

> >

> > I have XP home edition for more than one year and have not been

> > experiencing this problem before. I have checked for spyware/malware but

> > everything appears to be clean. If anyone has any suggestions I would be

> > most grateful...

>

> Some ideas:

>

> 1. How much space is left on your hard drive? If the drive is too full, this

> could cause the issue. Address this.

>

> 2. Do you do the normal maintenance of emptying your Temporary Internet/Temp

> folders? If not, this could be the cause of the issue. Address this.

>

> http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Maintenance

> http://aumha.org/a/health.htm - Take Out the Trash

>

> 3. How are you deleting the files? If by right-clicking to get the context

> menu, a third-party program may have insinuated itself into the context

> menu and is causing the problem. Use the free ShellExView program to manage

> context menus:

>

> http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

> Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers -

> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

> Right click causes an error and crashes Explorer.exe after installing

> Windows XP SP2 - http://www.winxptutor.com/sp2/divxcrash.htm

> Manage the context-menu entries for folders, drives and Namespace objects -

> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/context_folders.htm

>

> Malke

> --

> MS-MVP

> Elephant Boy Computers

> http://www.elephantboycomputers.com

> Don't Panic!

>