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Browsing Folders - Long Delay

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by bill in dallas 1 view

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I have a fairly new installation of XP and I have applied SP2 running on a box with P4 3.2 and 1 gig RAM. This PC is part of a domain.

When I try to use Win Explorer to browse to a folder, it now takes about 20 - 30 seconds before it gives me the view of any particular folder.

If I were looking on a shared network drive, I would think it was a permissions issue or DNS issue, but that would not apply here since it is local.

Any ideas as to what is causing this delay in seeing the folders?

Thanks in advance,

Bill

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by bfilmfan

That issue has been discussed in the forum here several times. There is a known bug with scheduled tasks that can be removed this way:

Open up the Registry and go to :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace

Under that branch, select the key :

{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

and delete it.

Also, your virus scanner could be slowing you down.

Also run a check for spyware and malware.

by bill in dallas

While I appreciate all the suggestions, none have worked. I finally used MSCONFIG to narrow down the problem, thinking that it had to be something that was in conflict.

Through much trial and error, it appears that a program in the Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 called Drag to Disk is the culprit.

When I disabled drgtodsc.exe using MSConfig, the problem seemed to go away. If I enabled it, it reappeared. There is no KB article on this issue on the Roxio website, nor anywhere else that I can find. Lots of mentions of slow PC that have drgtodsc.exe in their Hijack This security logs but nobody mentions this as being the problem.

I have written Roxio and I'm waiting on a response.
Thanks again and I will keep this updated.
Bill

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