Long delay before files appear in My Computer in Windows XP

**lankan_man** · November 20th, 2005, 00:22 AM

Hey there,

You know sometimes when you open My computer, and it loads with a little flashlight lighting a folder, well that thing is lasting too long it goes up to a minute sometimes, and it annoying+ when I try to open paint it comes up 1 minute after, sometimes doesn't even showup? whats going on?

**Big Booger** · November 20th, 2005, 01:01 AM

Originally Posted by lankan_man

Hey there,

You know sometimes when you open My computer, and it loads with a little flashlight lighting a folder, well that thing is lasting too long it goes up to a minute sometimes, and it annoying+ when I try to open paint it comes up 1 minute after, sometimes doesn't even showup? whats going on?

Have you defragged lately? Are you using the NTFS file system? Do you have file encryption enabled? How is your ram usage? How fast is your hard drive? Is your hard drive in PIO or DMA mode?

**gamedango** · November 20th, 2005, 02:43 AM

To go along with that, are you connected to a home network? Also, check your event viewer to see what kind of errors your getting. (Right click my computer, manage, event viewer) Check by application and system logs for any errors that reoccur alot.

**lankan_man** · November 20th, 2005, 03:29 AM

Originally Posted by gamedango

To go along with that, are you connected to a home network? Also, check your event viewer to see what kind of errors your getting. (Right click my computer, manage, event viewer) Check by application and system logs for any errors that reoccur alot.

Yeah, I have got a lot of errors!

Errors

-EventSystem
-Application Error
-TrueVector Service

What shall I do?

**rik** · November 20th, 2005, 06:26 AM

lite a fire under it!! It's cursed!!

**Conan** · November 20th, 2005, 07:44 AM

Sounds like Zone Alarm causing problems.

**lankan_man** · November 20th, 2005, 15:55 PM

I uninstalled Zone Alarm a long time ago

**FastGame** · November 20th, 2005, 16:05 PM

I uninstalled Zone Alarm a long time ago

Well maybe its not a clean un-install

Clear your error log and see if it still reports.

**lankan_man** · November 20th, 2005, 16:31 PM

These are the latest application stuff I got:

These are the latest system stuff I got:

**rik** · November 20th, 2005, 22:10 PM

See if anything from this link: http://eventid.net/display.asp?event...System&phase=1 pertains to your "EventSystem" errors. Or here: http://eventid.net/display.asp?event...0Error&phase=1 for the Application errors.
And here: http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?e...System&phase=1 for the last one.

**lankan_man** · November 20th, 2005, 22:10 PM

let me just add that now, when opening the address bar in IE it takes a long while too, why is everything being slow!

**rik** · November 20th, 2005, 22:13 PM

The first link indicates possible issues due to MSN 7.1. Do you have that installed?

**lankan_man** · November 20th, 2005, 22:30 PM

Not at all, I installed WoW, but now it's uninstalled, because I tought that was the cause, but nope, I really don't know what the cause is.
My DEP is set to to run for essential windows programs and service only.
I don't know if that helps?...

But, it started this week...

**Big Booger** · November 21st, 2005, 03:57 AM

Windows Image Acquisition
Stop the WIA service. To do so, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. Double-click Administrative Tools.
3. Double-click Component Services.
4. Click Services.
5. In the Services (Local) list, right-click Windows Image Acquisition (WIA), and then click Stop.

I helped Lankan_man get it sorted. It was the Windows Image Acquisition that was slowing down his programs.

Below is the link to the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;819017