My machine gets like that sometimes.  Sometimes it seems to fix
itself after a while, sometimes if I make an effor to close memory-
hungry apps that seems to help, and a reboot almost always gets it
back to reasonable responsiveness.  Does this sound like what you are
experiencing?

Dave Gillett


On 17 Oct 2001, at 8:35, Dave Curtin wrote:

> Deleting a file with Windows 2000 is extremely slow. It takes
> anywhere from 5 to 40 seconds to delete a file or folder (even an
> empty folder) using Windows Explorer. All other operations, e.g.
> file copying, are 'normal'. During the delete, the hard drive is
> very 'busy'. The PC is has an AMD 500 CPU, 256M memory, the hard
> drive partition is about 12G, Windows 2000 SP1 and SP2 have been
> installed. Setting the recycle bin ON/OFF has little effect. There
> are 50,000+ files on the hard drive which is about 60% full. I have
> another PC with a similar setup except it runs Windows NT. On that
> PC, file deletes occur in a fraction of the Windows 2000 time. I
> haven't been able to find anything about this behavior on the
> Microsoft support site. Can anyone help? Thanks

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