Slow folder opening

From	martyn.tindall@nospamplease.mbtindall.plus.com (Martyn Tindall)
Newsgroups	comp.sys.laptops
Subject	Slow folder opening
Date	2012-06-12 20:32 +0000
Message-ID	<4fd7a562.2375546@news.individual.net> (permalink)

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Sorry, this is nothing to do with laptops, the reason being that it's
on behalf of a friend and I'm at a loss to know where else to ask!
She's stuck with a hand-me-down desktop that she can't afford to
replace.  It's adequate for her purposes in general, but it takes an
eternity to open a folder.  I once tried to open a USB memory stick,
but gave up after sitting watching the egg timer for ten minutes or
more. Can anyone suggest where the problem might be?  I can't see
anything untoward in Task Manager (Performance tab), but I'm no
expert.

Pentium III 847 Mhz; 1 GB RAM; Hard Drive divided into 3 partitions,
each about 19 GB.  Windows XP Professional.  

TIA,

-- 
Martyn Tindall
Leeds, England, United Kingdom

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Slow folder opening martyn.tindall@nospamplease.mbtindall.plus.com (Martyn Tindall) - 2012-06-12 20:32 +0000
  Re: Slow folder opening Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2012-06-12 17:45 -0700
    Re: Slow folder opening martyn.tindall@nospamplease.mbtindall.plus.com (Martyn Tindall) - 2012-06-14 06:35 +0000

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