Slow folder opening

Sorry, this is nothing to do with laptops, the reason being that it's
on behalf of a friend and I'm at a loss to know where else to ask!
She's stuck with a hand-me-down desktop that she can't afford to
replace. It's adequate for her purposes in general, but it takes an
eternity to open a folder. I once tried to open a USB memory stick,
but gave up after sitting watching the egg timer for ten minutes or
more. Can anyone suggest where the problem might be? I can't see
anything untoward in Task Manager (Performance tab), but I'm no
expert.

Pentium III 847 Mhz; 1 GB RAM; Hard Drive divided into 3 partitions,
each about 19 GB. Windows XP Professional.

TIA,

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Martyn Tindall
Leeds, England, United Kingdom

On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 3:32:51 PM UTC-5, Martyn Tindall wrote:
> Sorry, this is nothing to do with laptops, the reason being that it's
> on behalf of a friend and I'm at a loss to know where else to ask!
> She's stuck with a hand-me-down desktop that she can't afford to
> replace. It's adequate for her purposes in general, but it takes an
> eternity to open a folder. I once tried to open a USB memory stick,
> but gave up after sitting watching the egg timer for ten minutes or
> more. Can anyone suggest where the problem might be? I can't see
> anything untoward in Task Manager (Performance tab), but I'm no
> expert.
>
> Pentium III 847 Mhz; 1 GB RAM; Hard Drive divided into 3 partitions,
> each about 19 GB. Windows XP Professional.
>
> TIA,
>
> --
> Martyn Tindall
> Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Try a scan with MalwareBytes. It may have to be reformatted if it's being used for a DDoS attack.

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:45:58 -0700 (PDT), Bob_Villa
<> wrote:

>On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 3:32:51 PM UTC-5, Martyn Tindall wrote:
>> Sorry, this is nothing to do with laptops, the reason being that it's
>> on behalf of a friend and I'm at a loss to know where else to ask!
>> She's stuck with a hand-me-down desktop that she can't afford to
>> replace. It's adequate for her purposes in general, but it takes an
>> eternity to open a folder. I once tried to open a USB memory stick,
>> but gave up after sitting watching the egg timer for ten minutes or
>> more. Can anyone suggest where the problem might be? I can't see
>> anything untoward in Task Manager (Performance tab), but I'm no
>> expert.
>>
>> Pentium III 847 Mhz; 1 GB RAM; Hard Drive divided into 3 partitions,
>> each about 19 GB. Windows XP Professional.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> --
>> Martyn Tindall
>> Leeds, England, United Kingdom
>
>Try a scan with MalwareBytes. It may have to be reformatted if it's being used for a DDoS attack.

Thanks, Bob.

Martyn

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Martyn Tindall
Leeds, England, United Kingdom