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Thu 8 Nov, 2007 08:07 am
Hi to all!
I've had several problems with my Windows Explorer. The opening or saving a file through several software is not working fast or sometimes not at all. Also the opening of big files (over 200mb) especially .exe files from the explorer freezes the whole explorer. For example: I want to download a file in Firefox from a web page. I click on the file ( coolfile.txt ) with my right mouse button and select "Save as..." then I choose the saving location, which takes a long time just to wonder around in my directories. I've found the place where to save the coolfile.txt. I click on "Save". After releasing the mouse button whole Firefox freezes.
I am in a big need of help! If you know something about this please tell me!
Windows XP Home: SP2
Firefox 2.0.0.6
Hello and welcome to A2K.
As we often say, slowdowns can be a sign of other troubles. As in, viruses, malware, etc. Plus scanning for a virus, etc. won't hurt. One question: do you have off-computer storage, such as CDs or DVDs? If not, that might be a place to start, too. Something is taking up space, particularly random access memory but it also sounds as if there are a lot of directories so there's a lot of searching going on. Offloading some of your stuff may help plus, if there are problems, you'll have things saved off the computer.
.mpg files, .mdb files and others can be large.
Another question is: what's open when you're trying to d/l files? Excel is a particular memory hog, for example.
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