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Old 03-21-2007
Keith Caravelli, MBA, MCSE
 

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Re: Windows Explorer is very slow to load and often hangs
On Mar 15, 1:02 pm, "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSp...@mindspring.com>
wrote:
> Is it a new PC, or an upgrade from XP/MCE ? If new - did you do a
> "De-Dell-ify" (Remove extra Apps, cleanup startups). Something is not
> right for an Explorer view to take that long to initialize. You might want
> to investigate the context menu extensions with Shell Extensions Viewer.http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
>
> "Keith Caravelli, MBA, MCSE" <k...@caravelli.com> wrote in messagenews:1173987683.170110.6340@e1g2000hsg.goog legroups.com...
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>
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> > When I right click on Start and select Explorer it launches the
> > Windows Explorer screen and only draws the right side of the Windows
> > Explorer view. It takes 37 seconds to load on a dual core AMD 3800
> > Dell with Windows Ultimate. Not much software on this box yet. Pretty
> > basic setup on my pc.

>
> > I have tried different DNS settings to see if Windows Explorer is
> > having trouble browsing to the mapped drives on my server which is
> > local. No good.

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> > Any thoughts?- Hide quoted text -

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Thanks, I will look into that for fun.
It is working now thought. Can't remember what it was.
Thanks again

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