Since yesterday, my start menu All Programs icons take about 2 minutes to load. When I click on an folder icon it brings up the magnifying glass search anim on that icon and takes 2 minutes to open the folder. Once opened, it is fine until I close the start menu, work on other things for a few minutes, then if I go back, the process starts again. I've deleted iconcache.db and rebuilt it.. nothing. I've set menu delay in registry to a low value.. nothing. I've reset start menu to defaults... nothing. Any idea?
Is the hard drive fragmented? How much space left on the drive? Whats taking up the ram/ how much is free?
Sounds a lot like a failing/full hard drive. That is what it was on my old spec machine when I ran windows 7 on it. Check for free space, fragmentation and also run a health check. Something like seatools or Crystal Disk.
Agreed. HDD/SSD problems. As it reads they are so many errors that it is needs to continuously use the error correcting bits stored, to correct the data before processing it. A format and re-install might fix the problem... but I would start not trusting the HDD or SSD.
I get the same problem specifically on my download folder. No idea why. Sometimes it just won't load it or takes several minutes to load the files and icons. Plextor M3 128GB SSD.
Bindi, it could be because you have large files, or highly compressed files, so as Windows tries to read some files, for the icons or thumbnail, it takes time.
It was Bitdefender! Somehow when it updated, it just decided to start behaving retarded. Re-installed it, and all is well. Thanks for trying to help though guys!
