XP hangs when I try to click open a folder

Is there a service or process that occurs when a folder is clicked open?

I have one folder on one of my partitions that has a number of subfolders and files totalling around 200,000 in all. Whenever I click on this folder to open it, the system hangs and waits anywhere from 30 seconds (if nothing else is running) to several minutes.

I have 256mb RAM and no other folder causes this problem.
I have turned off a number of services and also turned off file indexing for the entire disc.

Microsoft, as usual, has nothing to say on this issue.

Anybody?

Thanks

Wengang

Dude , that's way too much . You have to reconsider the way you store your files . :rolleyes:

But I've had this folder from Win95, Win98, Win2000 and now XP, and I'm sure there was a point after I installed XP where it wasn't happening. There must be a process that's been activated to make it slow down.

when was the last time u defraged that SOB??

one quick thing to try is to rename the folder in question.. winxp stores settings for each folder in the registry and the settings apply not to the folder but to a folder of that specific path and name.. so renaming it should set any wierd settings back

next try cutting and pasting everything to a temp folder, delete the now empty folder, see how the temp folder opens, and rename the temp folder to what it was before

Look for any File Explorer that supports XP . Usually , it helps in such issues .

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Here is some of them : http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.ht...search=+Go%21+

since I don't manipulate the folder often, defrag wasn't necessary (< 1%)

and I had tried the other things before posting.

Same result with the new folder.
In fact, when pasting only about half the stuff into a new one, the new one gets the same behavior.

Will look at that last one.

Thanks
Wengang

I had a similar problem, I think it's just a general NTFS limit that it gets very unhappy when you have lots of files.

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.p...postid=1161155
:evil: This directory ended up lagging my system out something horrible, and a number of blue-screens due to filesystem corruption.

u could try windows' file explorer real quick before u download another

parksie may i ask what the heck was in there??

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Originally posted by dis1411
parksie may i ask what the heck was in there??

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That's where he keeps filburt hidden. :p

If I recall correctly, it was *many* *many* small emails >=(

There was a directory per email, with about 50 files each (I exported the entire DB), with the exception of the actual message content most of the files were either empty, or about 10 bytes maximum. >:-)

I busted the folder up this morning and, as suspected, it was size related.

The two largest subfolders are still slow, but not as slow

It has to be the NTFS, because I only converted the drives a few months ago and I guess the problems have been happening since then.

On another note, though, I had a folder with about 10,000 MP3s in it that was doing this before and one day, for no reason at all, stopped having the problem


????????


Thanks all