Win 7 "Games" folder incredibly slow to open

Darkst4r · 27 Sep 2011 at 12:26

Hi, I've recently noticed that whenever I open my Windows "Games" folder it takes around 15-20 to open and even then is very slow and unresponsive, sliding in and out of "not responding" frequently.

I only have 19 games in there and my system spec should not be causing problems (Phenom II 965, 4GB Corsair Ram, Toxic 5850)

Any ideas what could be causing this ?

Thanks

yashiro · 27 Sep 2011 at 12:32

Click the Options button on the bar at the top and disable some of the options therein.

Darkst4r · 27 Sep 2011 at 12:40

yashiro said:
Click the Options button on the bar at the top and disable some of the options therein.

I dont have any options ticked atall.

yashiro · 27 Sep 2011 at 12:48

Try the clear information button? It's probably just how it is when you have certain games installed to be honest.

Darkst4r · 27 Sep 2011 at 13:04

Did that and still the same. It can't be normal for a reasonably powerful system to struggle on loading 19 game icons and also to not respond alltogether at times. I've had more games in this folder at one time or another with no problem atall.

Mr Blonde · 28 Sep 2011 at 15:02

This might help...

"Solved my slow Game Explorer Problem...

Have a New Compaq Win 7 Notebook with same issue. Using SysInternals (procmon), discovered that it was doing all this stuff in c:\swsetup\drivers folder every time I tried to open Games Explorer or select a game.

I simply renamed the "drivers" folder (All my drivers are loaded anyway) and problem fixed.

Hope this helps someone else and recommend sysinternal tools for diagnostics."

From here : http://social.technet.microsoft.com...f/thread/2fa72018-f8f2-4fd4-be48-a468b7156a6d

Darkst4r · 28 Sep 2011 at 15:05

I found that link myself but I don't even have a folder named SWsetup