Slow opening of windows

[The Jeep]

Hi-

I have just reinstalled my OS and everything else. The install's been going well, nice and stable, however I find that, say, from inside My Computer, my individual drive icons take about 2 seconds to open.

I am running Windows 2000 Pro SP4 on an AMD Athlon 1.2GHz system (Asus A7V133 mobo) with 1 x HDD on the primary master IDE (partitioned as 40GB C: drive (system) and 80GB D: drive (data, docs, etc). I also have 2x40GB UDMA-5 drives on the primary Promise ATA100 IDE with a 4th 32GB UDMA-4 drive on the secondary of this controller (the board has 4 IDE controllers).

The drives weren't as slow to open before installing some of the software/hardware. Could it be my anti-virus protection program? It's just a bit annoying and I wonder if anyone can see anything obvious that might be causing the delay. More info can be given if required. Thanks very much!

[chilifrei64]

Try bootvis to see where the delay is at

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664

[The Jeep]

Thanks Chili, but my OS is Windows 2000. Also, it's not the start-up time that's bothering me but the delay in opening a drive icon and then the folders inside (each folder and sub-folder has the same delay). It takes about 2 seconds, which is a LONG time, and I'm sure it didn't used to do that! Cheers, Jeep.

[The Jeep]

Well, it's been a day of resolving my own problems! The delay in opening folders is simply due to trend Micro Anti-spyware having 'check programs before they execute' enabled. Oh well, that's that sorted.