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Solved it. There is no continual refreshing when the recycle bin is under 220Mb. Hope this thread helps someone else.

Dogers! You've done it! Competed the wizard again and that seems to have completed the cycle. Normal service is resumed. Thanks everyone who replied.

Thanks Linney but these haven't cured it. I think the problem lies in the process being an "internet connection wizard" has not completed so tries to complete every time you use the browser? If I could disable the wizard then maybe we'd have our answer?

BOBG1, Everything seems normal? I'm concerned that it is something to do with a registry or default setting because of the reboot initalising my content manager?

The problem all started when I couldn't connect to the internet using my dial up connection. I thought I'd load another ISP to give me another option. I put the CD in and proceeded to install. The problem arose when trying to connect to the internet again. The phone number is no longer valid so...

I can't see anything in the options. The only thing that keeps happening is that upon reboot my content manager re-enables itself?

Worked it out! when recieving an email whilst doing something else, somethimes the PC is fooled into thinking the shift key is held down when it isn't. If I do a mulitple select holding down the shift key the do a single select a couple of times the PC realises and I can continue. Thanks for...

The problem all started when I couldn't connect to the internet using my dial up connection. I thought I'd load another provider to give me options. I put the CD in and proceeded to install. The problem arose when trying to connect to the internet again. The phone number is no longer valid and I...

I am running windows 2000 with 398Mb of ram and 20Gb HD. when opening the recycle bin the OS keeps refreshing every second for about 3 minutes. The recycle bin contains 1,488 objects totaling 218Mb. Why does this refresh keep happening?

I deleted an image earlier when emptying my recycle bin but now find I need it. My understanding of deletion is that the data is still on your PC but is flagged ok to over written by new data. this data is not actually deleted until more data is added to your PC thus overwriting deleted data. If...

It was a clean install. It worked fine except for the slow drop down windows when exploring locations to save to etc. It has steadily been getting worse (happening more often)for a while (months).

I have 392Mb of RAM. Yes it happens with C drive as well.

It is NTFS with 16 objects in it's root. I have also found that the same error also occours with network windows?

My hard drive is split into 2, C & D drives. When I Leave a window open on drive D and use an application then close the application my computer hangs and I get the status of "not responding" in task manager? Example: I open a Folder on my D drive with some .jpgs in, drag one over the...

thanks mudskipper but I'm sure the keyboard is ok as it's only a couple of months old. any more ideas?