Why does Windows Explorer take so long to display sometimes?

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Doing this resolved my Explorer speed problem:

Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel
Double-click on System
Click the Hardware tab
Click the Device Manager button
In the menu click View > Show Hidden Devices
In the list of devices, click the plus sign beside "Disk drives" to show the list of drives. Those in bold are active and connected. Those grayed out are inactive (but were at one time connected). Review the grayed out ones to see if any of them are outdated and can be removed (right click and click uninstall to remove them).

I looked and looked for answers on why "MY Computer" file loads at a painstakingly slow rate. I've tried everything. To include removing all my downloaded movies, music, and everything else that took hours( if not days) to load. After days of trial, error, restarts, reloads, ETC.... I figured it out on my own. FOLKS, If you are like me I'm sure you may or may not have some sort of "DOWNLOAD ACCELERATOR". If you do STOP the acceleration process if you are not downloading anything. Your files will run smoothly. I promise.

Before you go changing, deleting or making adjustment to your PC OS, you might want to scan it for virus, spybots etc as it's seems to me that your explorer is being hijacked.

You be amazed that Spybot now come into your PC in many ways, shape and size...

Good luck

When I first open internet explorer it takes about 5 minutes to load my homepage. This is a recent problem. Once it loads it goes from page to page quickly. I have a gateway laptop running windows xp. What could be to problem.

please help me!

when i open one internet explorer page, everything is alright.

but when i open a second page it says "no response", will u please tell me how to work this out?

many thanks

FYI, I had to stop all the HP services installed with my c7250 printer. Works fine now. Note, I probably didn't have to stop them all as only one was probably causing the issue, but I didn't have the patience to experiment and find out.

I had the same problem and disabling WIA did not help. Some poking around revealed the real reason. I had a folder on my desktop with a really deep hierarchy and a LOT of files (200-300). Moving that folder to a different destination fixed it. Anything destination other than the desktop should work. In my case, I moved it to c:\temp. Hope that helps someone.

I found that Windows Explorer was taking 20 seconds or so to open up properly. I found that the problem seemed to be related to the number of drives you had and by going to Tools/Folder Options/Offline files and unchecking the 'Enable Offline files' checkbox solved the problem.

I recently experienced significant delays in opening folder contents with W Explorer (WXP Pro, duo core).

It turns out that an upgrade to Spybot 1.6 caused this. I uninstalled Spybot 1.6 and problem solved. I'll try installing 1.6 again to see if the issue re-occurs, or else drop back to an older version of Spybot.

Paul

Following is a Copy/Paste of an article that solved this problem on my PC:
NOTE: ALWAYS set a new System Restore point before running Regedit!

Blank Device Danager and very SLOW windows Explorer Start-up
Go to Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services. Scroll down to Plug and Play Service and stop and restart it. Reboot. Once done the Device Manager will populate again.
NOT ALWAYS!!
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Start, Run, Regedit (Enter):
Check the Permissions of HKey_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum
Should have two users:
Everyone = Read permission
System = Full
Navigate to the key using Regedit, Right Click the Enum key and then click Permissions.
(The last one fixed my problems)

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