I've noticed on my XP work machine that when things are deleted, the "deleting" dialog is present for up to 30s, even for a single file or empty folder. It looks like it deletes everything, then sort of hangs for a while with the dialog open.

And this goes in the 2K forum because my 2K machine at home seems to be doing the same thing. It's a clean install a few weeks back and originally was very quick, but the same thing seems to have started to a lesser degree.

My home PC is an 800MHz with 384Mb and my work PC a 3GHz with 1GB so for the OSes involved that seems plenty. I wondered if it could be a HDD fragmentation problem but that seems a bit unlikely, no?