Yesterday I did two months worth of MS hotfixes, including IE7 (which i don't use).

Since the reboot when i right click in windows explorer (for the first time in a while) it takes 20-40 seconds to show me the menu. If i double click on my clock it takes about 40 seconds to popup. Same with right clicking on a desktop icon

Anyone seen this before? This has coincided with my DVD burner no longer burning. It fails on the first file even at 4x.

Any ideas? I can be watching processes in task manager and my PC is not under any sort of load, just takes explorer half a minute to respond if it hasn't done the task recently. Everything else seems to be working fine at the same time. I can go start/run/notepad.exe and it won't pop up for half a minute.

Like i just double clicked on windows task manager then, which was minimised, and typed all this line before it came up, including checking spelling. still not here. come.. there. THAT LONG.

It's driving me crazy. Almost enough to roll back the patches, but i'm not keen on rebooting, so will wait for advice.

yeah IE7 sux .. really slowed my browser down

Lol, looking at my updates thing i have ~2-3 months to install as well.

But I CBF.

ever since that windows authentication thing came up i never updated again. stuck in the wilderness.

Could be a broken short cut in your start menu / documents / etc. Windows will read through this last when bringing up right-click menus, task bar, etc and if there's a broken shortcut (ie: to a network share that doesn't exist, etc) it could sit there trying to connect to it before timing out.

Thanks TicMan, i thought you were on to something (that seems to make sense) but i don't have network shortcuts listed in my start menu (or search, results, recent documents).

I'm now identifying and deleting any processes that i don't need. will see what happens.

Problems since MS patching

don't update, ever.
problem solved.

You didn't list it above, so just in case you haven't already checked I've seen entries in my network places causing that kind of slowdown

omfg its corpse, get on msn you carnt

i turn off most things in my start menu, so the only network related thing is settings/network connections - which lists my network cards, no history of connections.

sounds like a virus / spyware problem


if it comes down to a re-install, and you don't have a backup ghost image of your install, it may pay to dl all 67 (odd) updates and imbed them into your own WinXP install cd using tools like NLite.


we're so overdue for another service pack it's not funny

or http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/

:)

edit: hi eds

last edited by DecayingCorpse at 23:00:57 18/Dec/06

I keep all my systems fully updated and legitamized, and havn't had a problem ever.

I removed a heap of things from startup, ran a virus check and adaware which found nothing. shut down. replaced my DVDR and everything's good. So fast it feels like i re-installed.

haha


by any chance did Windows log your DVDR faulting over the last few weeks/months? It usually does, but no one ever checks the error logs

I keep all my systems fully updated and legitamized, and havn't had a problem ever.

f*** you're a wanker, pull your head in c*** and stop making out like you're so much better than everyone else cos you have 3 f***ing computers, wait 3 completely legit computers, you knob.

ever since that windows authentication thing came up i never updated again. stuck in the wilderness.

Me too. We should form a tribe.