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NT Explorer takes FOREVER to launch!

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by pchw 2 views

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NT 4.0, SP6, Dell Latitude C600 laptop, 256 mg ram: launch NT Explorer from any shortcut, or start, run or whatever, can take up to a minute OR MORE before it finally lands on the desktop. Nothing in event viewer or task manager to indicate hanging or anything of the sort. Not profile related, shortcut related or anything. It just takes forever to launch. Everything else runs fine, but won't run if you launch explorer and the explorer window hasn't popped up on the screen, yet. Help!

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by m.a.s. matrix

Try downloading the IE6.0 public review from Microsoft's product updates. That solved a lot of the problems I was having with ME and 2000 Pro.

by pchw

I am talking about Windows Explorer, not Internet Explorer, but thank you.

by stillatit

When Explorer launches, it looks at each disk drive on your system, including attached network drives, and such things as removable drives and CD's. Take a look at these things and see if you have one or more defined but not there. For example, do you have a Zip or Jazz drive there, but turned off, or a mapped network drive that is no longer available?

Good luck.

by pchw

That was one of the first things I checked. It didn't pan out. I have even worked with laptops that have an external zip drive that is not connected, and eventually times out with an error message, as well as a bunch of network drives that don't load as a result of not being on the network that load NT Explorer faster than this does. I would say it is taking well over two minutes to launch. Thanks for the suggestion, though. : )

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