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| Author: | pg2114 [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Computer taking forever to delete files? |
Hello all, Whilst my computer is fairly fast, it can sometimes take over a minute to delete the smallest of files. I had a 1Kb plain text file on my desktop this morning and it took nearly two minutes to delete the file. The progress bar sat at 100%, but the hard drive was still working hard trying to delete the file. I don't have any silly software bloating up my computer at all, just a very simple Windows XP installation. I do recall a similar problem with I had Windows Vista installed, but not quite as bad as this. Any ideas, please? Peter. |
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| Author: | saspro [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Computer taking forever to delete files? |
What are the specs of the machine? How much space is left on the HDD? How much is the HDD fragmented? |
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| Author: | pg2114 [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:21 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Computer taking forever to delete files? | |||||||||
It's a fairly modern machine, which I build a few years back:
It is defragmented weekly. I have just checked and it is free of fragmentation. Thanks, Peter. |
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| Author: | saspro [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Computer taking forever to delete files? |
I'd do a scan for bad sectors as well. Wonder if there are any locks on the file |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:34 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Computer taking forever to delete files? | |||||||||
That's my first thought. Windows typically sits there for about a minute waiting for it to be released before it pops up telling you "This file is in use". However, this problem usually occurs with documents that have been opened in Office or files in a folder with "Preview" turned on. It doesn't often happen with notepad files on the desktop. It's more likely the bin is just full. Try emptying the bin? |
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| Author: | pg2114 [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:08 pm ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I set up Scandisk this afternoon and left it running for a few hours. It completed and never gave any warning messages, so I think my hard drive was free from bad sectors.
That's a good point, but I have experimented with a few files and the same happens, whether it be a text file, an image file or a music file. The shortest time to finish deleting a file was about 30 seconds, but some files took nearly 2 minutes.
The recycle bin is definitely empty. As I said in my original post, I had a similar issue with Windows Vista on this same installation, so I don't know whether it is software or hardware based, unfortunately. Thanks all, Peter. |
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Computer taking forever to delete files? |
If it's affecting more than one OS, it's got to be hardware issue Shirley? |
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| Author: | pg2114 [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:55 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Computer taking forever to delete files? | |||||||||
It could be a software bug affecting Windows XP and Vista?  Peter. |
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:56 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Well it's not one I've encountered, perhaps it could be a driver issue, or hardware/software conflict? |
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| Author: | MrStevenRogers [ Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Computer taking forever to delete files? |
try my computer > properties > advanced > page file settings set the page file to zero and then disable save settings and restart defrag the system go back to the page file and reset it as required save settings restart the system see if this gives any improvement … |
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