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| Thread ID: 20288 | 2002-06-02 03:41:00 | Windows Explorer very slow to open up the first time | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 52048 | 2002-06-02 03:41:00 | I'm having to repost this message as my last one didn't seem to work. Thankyou for those who did reply, but I was unable to view my posting. It relates to Windows Explorer being very slow to open up the first time. The same thing happens in a 'Save As' dialog box when the 'Save in' list is dropped down. Windows appears to try and scan every drive before it shows what is available. This can take a significant amount of time as I have an A: drive (though Windows insists the PC also has a B: drive - more on that later), one 20Gb ATA100 HD with two partitions, one CD writer), one DVD/CD drive, and an internal IDE Zip drive. Other system specs are: 1.4G Athlon, 256Mb PC133 SDRAM, and an ASUS A7V133-VM M/Board. Before I fitted the internal IDE Zip drive, I had two floppy drives installed. I physically removed the B: drive, removed it from System Properties and from the BIOS. However, if I remove it from System Properties Windows insists on putting it back in again during boot. There are several registry entries that have B: in them, but they are related to 'DriverList' for 'Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth' and 'FriendlyName' for 'B: SB Live! MIDI Synth'. Any help on those two problems would be greatly appreciated. |
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| 52049 | 2002-06-02 08:07:00 | Yuck..Win98SE! Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Chuck. Go on, treat yourself to luxury XP! (or upgrade to Linux as you don't mind some education). Tee Hee |
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| 52050 | 2002-06-02 13:16:00 | Ho Hum. | Guest (0) | ||
| 52051 | 2002-06-04 02:39:00 | I see the same symptoms with NT4. So far I have found no work around but then I dont have as many drives as you so it is not such a drag. The missing B: drive is a 'feature' buried deep in history. In the beginning most PCs had two floppy drives (A: and B:) (yes I still have a Compaq portable II from about 1984 with 2 5.25' floppies) and when hard drives came along they were tacked on as C:. When systems later came out with only one floppy and one HD they kept what was by then a convenetion that the HD was called C: even though there was no longer a second Floppy drive. I would have a look in the Control Panel... Devices... and see if there is any device that has name like FLP B or suchlike. Sorry I dont know exactly what it mifght be called. The explicit references in Registry to B: should be able to be edited (after backup) to point else where eg A: - just possible that if registry has an entry then loader will try to enable it. |
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