Slow Windows Explorer window

[philrock]

I am using Win XP Home. A few times a day, I plug a USB flash drive into my computer for data transfer. When I first started doing this, a Windows Explorer window would quickly come up, which was a nice convenience. Now, it takes 10 or 15 seconds for the Windows Explorer window to come up. This delay is a definite inconvenience.

Is there a way I can get back to the quicker performance?

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Gee we get spoiled easily..It used to take longer than that for a computer monitor to warm up...

Anyway, does the drive have mixed contents ( text as well as graphics, etc) and is that different each time you plug it in...If so, determining the 'default' action could be the reason for the delay..





To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[linney]

Some Anti Virus software have options (set preferences) to scan a flash drive every time it is inserted.

Autoplay Repair Wizard

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...B6-E8FA-45C4-A171-1B389CFACDAD&displaylang=en

General USB troubleshooting in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310575&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

Permanently set Windows XP's Windows Explorer as your flash drive's default AutoPlay action

http://content.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6184918.html

There have been several recent Windows Updates to do with Auto Run.

http://windowssecrets.com/search/?c...ID:11&q=Autorun&sa=Search&advWS=1&advPages=15

How to correct "disable Autorun registry key" enforcement in Windows

http://kbalertz.com/967715/correct-Autorun-registry-enforcement-Windows.aspx#top

 

[philrock]

I unchecked the following in the MSCONFIG startup list:

Reader_sl
LMPDPSRV
winampa
Lexmark X125 Settings Utility
sttray
QTTask
Micrsoft Find Fast

...and things got A LOT better.

 

[linney]

Thank you for your feedback.