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delay in opening programs in windows xp

by semiko May 16, 2005 6:28PM PDT

hi everybody i have a problem with my windows xp system. I have delays in opening programs. For example when i want to see movie i double click on the movie and it takes about 10 seconds open it. I have spyware doctor and norton antivirus opened but i dont think that this programs cause that problem. Everything that i want to execute it takes 10 seconds. I cauldnt solve this problem is there anyone can help me???

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same problem
by quietheart Jun 1, 2005 4:19AM PDT

I am having the same delay. I have searched far and wide with no success as to what's causing it or how to fix it.

Thanks

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Re: delay in opening...
by baron_knight_killer_iii Jun 9, 2005 11:58PM PDT

How full is your hard drive? Overloaded disks are known to lag to some extent. Try running a disk defrag and if that dosen't work a disk cleanup. If that dosen't work then... well... your PC may just be slow. Get used to it or go out and upgrade it.

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by quietheart Jun 10, 2005 3:12AM PDT

Hard drive is not anywhere near full, is defragged and is running with 2.9mhz with 1 gig ram so I doubt I need to ''Deal with it or upgrade''.

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Same problem - Delay when opening programs
by c2005n Jul 10, 2005 4:43AM PDT

My Winxp was working fine for a long time. Then, after installing several programs, I noticed it started delaying 4 to 5 seconds to open every program or folder. Processsor or amount of memmory didn?t change or had any influence. Disks were not full. I tried to follow a solution by excluding pagefile but it made no difference at all. Then I looked into Nod32 anivirus and saw that it was checked to scan every thing in its starting and opening. I unchecked this and allowed scanning only in program creation. Of course, Nod32 still makes scheduled scanning for all the programs. After that, most of programs are running instantly. Thus, a configuration like that of a antivirus program does cause such a delay.

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