Recycle Bin Delay

[Nish197]

Hey first time on the forum hoping someone can help
My recycle bin takes about 1-2 minutes to open or to even start to empty, also alot of other little things intalls freezing and delays that have never happend. I've run multiple av's and there is no infection as far as they can tell

Running windows 7 Pro x64

 

[Shootist]

What other software are you running? What AV/spyware/malware programs?
Also it could be a program that you would never think of that is locking up the Recycle bin.

I had been a long time user of a file management program called PowerDesk, since the middle 90's. When I switched over from XP to 7 I bought the newest version of that program, version 8.
Once I installed it I noticed that putting things into the recycle bin took longer then what I remembered in XP and 7 before that program was installed.
Then when emptying the bin it would take FOREVER to empty. Deleting only 3-5 items in the bin at a time. To empty the bin of say 300 items, no matter the total size, would take minute, multiple minutes like 10+. I had a hard time tracking it down to the PowerDesk program but once I removed that program the bin empties in a snap of my fingers.
So it could be some other program that is somehow locking up the bin.

 

[Nish197]

thats what i was thinking but i hadnt installed anything new, the only thing i can think of if firefox 4 from 3,
I'm using bit-defender and super anti spyware
its not taking ages to do thing just takes forever before it starts doing things
and lots of little things just seem off : /

 

[Shootist]

thats what i was thinking but i hadnt installed anything new, the only thing i can think of if firefox 4 from 3,
I'm using bit-defender and super anti spyware
its not taking ages to do thing just takes forever before it starts doing things
and lots of little things just seem off : /

Well uninstall those programs and see if it continues. AVs and the like programs are notorious for scanning every file that gets moved around and putting hooks into the file system in the guise of protecting you.

If it bother you to be connected to the internet without some of this protection then unplug your Ethernet cable or turn off your router until you finish the tests.

 

[Nish197]

i'll try but they've been installed since i got the computer almost a year ago and iv never had a problem

also thanks so far

 

[Shootist]

i'll try but they've been installed since i got the computer almost a year ago and iv never had a problem

also thanks so far

Ok then. But have these programs been updated recently?

Have you installed anything else?

 

[Nish197]

cannot remember for the life of me, BitDefender updates automatically, mozzilla firefox recently updated but noting else recently and i reinstalled firefox 3.6 and got rid of 4 but no change
iv uninstalled Bitdefender, still the same issue.

 

[Nish197]

solved it, a hard drive i had connected was corrupt or something