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by kimnsara

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Installed SP2. When I open My Computer it now takes a few minutes just to display the contents. A: C: D: E:

Any ideas do I uninstall it or is their an easier solution.

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by house

Perform clean up and defrag. Check your pc for spyware and virus like activity.

Sp2 does reduce performance a bit, but not to that effect.

by kimnsara

I have run spybot and ADware and delted spyware. Checked with 2 Virus Checkers both installed PC Cillian and online at symantec. Still no improvement.

by p.j.hutchison

A defrag will speed up access. Explorer is not the faster file browser in the world anyway. Also disable any unnecessary background processes to speed things up using msconfig.

by bfilmfan

Three things to try, which require registry modification:

Set HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoRecentDocsNetHood to 1.

AND

Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace and delete the key {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

AND

Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer and the key (DWORD) UseDesktopIniCache set to a value of 1.

Enjoy!

by house

Just a quick question (might sound dumb). Have you removed your indexing service by mistake? Check your add-remove windows components and make sure that this is checked!

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