windows explorer takes forever to show content

[rbico]

I have windows 7 home premium 32bit on a pretty fast AMD phenom II x4 with 4gb ram. The problem I ahve is with windows explorer. When I click on a drive, it takes about 5 seconds before it will show me the folders. Then when I click on a folder, I have to wait as a little hourglass-type slider goes across the top of the screen before it will show the contents. This can take anywhere from 2-15 seconds. I don't remember any other windows OS doing this.

Is there something I can change to help speed this up? Not sure that it matters, but I checked defrag and most of my drives are less than 5% fragmented - the most being 15%.

thanks1

 

[logicearth]

It is some third-party application you have installed. Either security software or some extension in Explorer like one that adds something to the context menu.

 

[rbico]

thanks. can you elborate? I have avast but don't see how that can affect it. And I don't understand the explorer extension thing.