Delay in opening windows directories

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I can't help with registry settings but when was the last time that you ran
defrag or a disk clean up?
--
Ron
Be careful what you ask for. You might just get it.

"DP" <dpike@email.unc.edu> wrote in message
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> I have encountered an irritating problem that I thought I once saw a
> solution to.
>
> What explains the lengthy delay - 5-6-7 seconds - when you try to open
some
> kind of explorer or my computer new drive / directory? Or to open / save a
> document from / into a different directory or drive/directly than the one
> the original open / save "menu" shows when you first open it?
>
> Somewhere, I thought I saw a reference to a registry setting that
regulates
> the "wait" or delay.
>
> Help! It is beyond irritating.
>
> Thanks, David Pike
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?)

This is a problem I KNOW I saw referred to in a computer magazine once! What
I don't understand is how or why the setting would have been changed, since
I didn't do it.

DP



"Ron" <spam@kwic.com> wrote in message
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> I can't help with registry settings but when was the last time that you
ran
> defrag or a disk clean up?
> --
> Ron
> Be careful what you ask for. You might just get it.
>
> "DP" <dpike@email.unc.edu> wrote in message
> news:uPFkjiMGEHA.2052@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > I have encountered an irritating problem that I thought I once saw a
> > solution to.
> >
> > What explains the lengthy delay - 5-6-7 seconds - when you try to open
> some
> > kind of explorer or my computer new drive / directory? Or to open / save
a
> > document from / into a different directory or drive/directly than the
one
> > the original open / save "menu" shows when you first open it?
> >
> > Somewhere, I thought I saw a reference to a registry setting that
> regulates
> > the "wait" or delay.
> >
> > Help! It is beyond irritating.
> >
> > Thanks, David Pike
> >
> >
>