Windows 7 taking long to display folder contents!

mindrot · 10 Jul 2010 at 00:21

Hi,

I've recently done a fresh install of Windows 7 64Bit (Ultimate), but find that it sometimes takes soooo long to display the contents of a simple folder (you can see the green loading bar at the top taking it's time as well), whereas Win XP (64bit) will display the contents immediately

Is there any way I can fix this?

Sorry if this has been asked before elsewhere here but I wasn't too sure what to search for.

Any help would be great.

mindrot · 10 Jul 2010 at 10:23

I'm using Kasperskey.

mindrot · 10 Jul 2010 at 11:24

Hmm, not sure. Could be, but not for hours though. Is there anyway to check?

mindrot · 11 Jul 2010 at 01:55

Thanks all. I'll try and defrag, I haven't in ages

I'll also give it some time and see how it progresses, otherwise I'll bump this post

mindrot · 12 Jul 2010 at 20:49

Cheers, just tried that

I'll see how that goes as well.

mindrot · 25 Jul 2010 at 23:48

Seems a bit better now, however if I try and save an image from the internet via Chrome, it still hangs for a few seconds. This doesn't happen all the time though.

mindrot · 26 Jul 2010 at 23:47

Thanks, I'll look into my anti-virus and also check the drives, not that they are that old, but then again I've had duds fresh out the box as well.

Though XP never had any of these problems, so I'm wondering if it could possibly be the indexing?

mindrot · 27 Jul 2010 at 23:10

I've just checked the the drive using Seatools and also HDTune and it has errors

It's a 500gb Seagate.

I'm guessing I need to buy a new one, or can this be fixed?

I've posted details here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=17036880#post17036880