I'm sure this isn't a program problem, but I have no idea what causes this. All of a sudden, when I read folders from my network, it shows the type of folder real SLOW !! Like for exe, docs, and other files. It used to just zip along when reading the files, but it has come to a crawl. It takes forever to do anything woth the files, such as rename, delete, any of that. You help would be greatly appreciated, if you care to.
yes sir, appears to be just as slow...that's why I guessed it wasn't the proggie. I really hate to reformat LOL! But, if I can't find it..I'll hafta LOL!
You won't need top reformat because its reading the folders slowly. If this only happens on the network drives, then perhaps, the network drive is nearing capacity, or being acessed by a lot of other people. Either way, the network is updating x2 slowly.
yes sir, I know that, but the drive isn't near capacity and I'm the only one using the network drive. It did work fine before, now it's real slow..just thot there was a simple answer.
MrKlean wrote: All of a sudden, when I read folders from my network, it shows the type of folder real SLOW !!
That suggests something specific changed (like a new program was installed or updated, or antivirus settings were changed, etc).
Simply reformatting a drive may have no beneficial effect if the problem is in your AV app settings, for example. If you can determine what it was, it will be much less painful to reverse than to 'rebuild' the system.
For what it's worth, the problem I have found with Norton is that it is too aggressive to run on my old (win98) machines: it slowed things down to a crawl. My 'solution' was to switch those machines to AVG (free version).