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Top Tip! Fixing Long Delay When Opening My Computer In Windows XP
Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 12:57.
For some unknown reason one of my PC started acting weirdly taking too much time populating the "My Computer" item list, accessing "My Computer" from any dialog or shortcut took a lot of time displaying the standard Windows searching flashlight.
Luckily the fix is pretty easy, just follow the simple procedure described next.
- Click Start and launch Run command.
- Type services.msc and press enter to launch Windows Service Manager.
- Navigate to Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) service, Right-click it and select Stop.
- You should also change WIA service startup mode to Manual, keep in mind when this service is disabled no scanner or camera related functionality will be available.
- Your problem should be solved now.
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VERY USEFUL, THANKS...
Really useful!. You can also
Really useful!. You can also try by just disabling 'Automatically search for Network folders and Printers' from Tools-Folder option-View.
Thanks a lot
It worked like charm, gr8 site.
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i can't view my hidden files although i've change it's setting to show hidden files
I think i know my problem
hey guys, i've tried this but it hasn't helped.. Not a bit, but then I went to some other forums and saw ppl connecting the delay from my computer with a delay from internet. And I thought back to when the my computer started lagging. I remember once when my word document wouldn't open and I had 2 many browser programs(opera, safari, firefox, IE RC8) and I decided to delete safari and IE RC8. So I went to task manager to see which to delete first. I saw that internet took a lot of RAM so i closed it from task manager. Then my whole screen just went blank, all I see is the background and task manager. It didn't freeze.. But I remembered deleting something else 2 from task manager.. So I restarted the computer from task manager and didn't use my computer that day. The next day my mom went on my computer and it took her like 3 minutes 2 get in and today its the same. Someone plz help? Is that the problem?
I struggled for hours with
I struggled for hours with this issue - MY COMPUTER & WINDOWS EXPLORER were taking 5 minutes to show the drives other than 'C:\" after I performed an XP SP2 repair installation.
Eventually I found that this problem was caused by a corrupt installation of Daemon Tools but even re-installing Daemon did not itself provide the solution. It was only when I actually mounted an image Daemon that, at last, the delay problem disappeared.
I assume there must have been some vestige of a virtual CD drive after the repair installation and some issues associated with this.
try this
Use the following script, as a batch file, to shut down your computer. It is not 100% but 85% of the time the boot up and normal working will be faster than before.
cls
@ECHO **********************************************
@ECHO *** Deleting files in C:\WINDOWS\PREFETCH ***
del C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\*.* /q
@ECHO **********************************************
@ECHO *** Deleting TEMP files from user's folder ***
del C:\Docume~1\%username%\LocalS~1\Temp\*.* /q /s /f
@ECHO **********************************************
@ECHO *** Deleting Temporary Internet Files ***
del C:\Docume~1\%username%\LocalS~1\Tempor~1\*.* /q /s /f
@ECHO **********************************************
@ECHO *** Deleting Internet History Files ***
del C:\Docume~1\%username%\LocalS~1\Histor~1\*.* /q /s /f
del c:\Windows\temp\*.* /q /s /f
shutdown.exe -s -t 5 -c "Please wait"
Thanks a lot.
Not sure what exactly helped, because I was doing some things at the same time.
But my guess disabling the WIA did it, just needed to reboot before it became in effect.
It was a GREAT pain to work with the AfterEffects and other programs, and need to wait for minute or two until it shows dialog. It was same for office and all programs using common dialogs.
Thank you very much!!!
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