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I am running Windows98SE on 1 of my computers.

It is getting very slow when "going down" into or "coming up out of" a
floder. What can I do to bring it back to the speed it used to have?

Microsoft knowlege base doesn't have a clue.

Tom Miller

Double click on My Computer. See if you have any drives listed that don't
actually exist. Many times Windows doesn't notice when you remove a CD drive
or something, and the extra lag that you're experiencing is Windows looking
at/for the "phantom" drive.

If this is the problem, inserting a lastdrive statement into the config.sys
file i.e. (lastdrive=c), or d, or e, or whatever your last drive actually
is, will solve your problem. Don't use the ( ) when you type the statement
in your config.sys


"Tom Miller" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I am running Windows98SE on 1 of my computers.
>
> It is getting very slow when "going down" into or "coming up out of" a
> floder. What can I do to bring it back to the speed it used to have?
>
> Microsoft knowlege base doesn't have a clue.
>
> Tom Miller
>
>

One possible cause of this in 98/ME is a stuffed up My Documents folder. The
workaround is to keep the number of files and folders within it to a minimum. Put old
unused stuff somewhere else.
Another fix is to do your regular cleanup and housekeeping, then boot into safe mode
and run defrag. The "safe mode" is the important part, not the defrag. Unfortunately
this resets some folder/window settings, but what the heck.


On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 16:48:06 -0600, "Tom Miller" <> wrote in
24hoursupport.helpdesk:

>I am running Windows98SE on 1 of my computers.
>
>It is getting very slow when "going down" into or "coming up out of" a
>floder. What can I do to bring it back to the speed it used to have?
>
>Microsoft knowlege base doesn't have a clue.
>
>Tom Miller
>