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Bizarre Problem in Windows Explorer
I have a very strange issue in Windows 7 which I am hoping you can help with. General symptoms are that the system is just running incredibly slowly at times, and has actually driven me to go for an upgrade. Examples of the kinds of things happening now are:
- When I open my computer, I get a slow moving green bar across the address bar and cannot access any of the drives until it is done
- Apps pinned to the taskbar take ages to open - Kodi the other day took 45 minutes to open
- The system takes upwards of 30 minutes to shut down
- I can't install new items - for instance, trying to install a Java update, the installer took 45 minutes "Computing space requirements" before I cancelled it
- Windows Update won't work - on the shutdown last night (after taking 25 minutes to get to the shutting down screen) I went to bed at 0% installing 1 of 15 updates.... when I got up 9 hours later it was still at 0%
- I can't install Win10 upgrade - it paused at "starting download" for almost 24 hours
- Explorer will crash and then I cannot get it to restart either through Command Lines or the Run menu from Task Manager
There are others too but that's a fair example.
Anyway I was setting up my Install folder for my new PC which will contain all the apps etc I want to install. This meant moving lots of downloads from my Download folder into a USB drive for easy access. That's when I noticed some of the following actions:
- There is no refresh at all - so for example, I click on New Folder and nothing happens. I click it again 20 times in frustration. Then I go back in the folder and there are 21 New folders
- When I rename, same thing happens - have to refresh to see it
- If I press F2, then rename the New Folder, it still shows New Folder on the screen. But if i try to move that folder, it tells me it doesn't exist (same for files)
- If I try to move items into New Folder after I have renamed it (but not refreshed) it CREATES a new New folder and moves the file in
So before I drop a few hundred quid on a new build, is something obvious and fixable going on here?
Thanks,
Mike