- File, open or save delay
- Posted by woodrow on October 6th, 2005
Lately whenever I click File, then Open or Save/Save as, there is a long
delay before the drop down box opens, listing the available drives, documents
etc. Sometimes I get a "program not responding" message. I'm not sure where
to start to look for the answer to this, is this a file system problem?
- Posted by David Candy on October 7th, 2005
"Program Not Responding" just means the program hasn't checked it's message queue for x seconds. If something takes an unexpected long time this will happen (after all Windows can't tell why it's not picking up it's messages so it guesses that it has crashed - if the program starts getting it's messages again windows will note it and list it as responding again - don't terminate the program when asked - it's just a timer message).
Do you have a network connection (perhaps an old one not used) or a DVD or CD in the drive?
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"woodrow" <woodrow@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:928E9A15-F302-4D09-BD41-2978BE79EE9C@microsoft.com...
> Lately whenever I click File, then Open or Save/Save as, there is a long
> delay before the drop down box opens, listing the available drives, documents
> etc. Sometimes I get a "program not responding" message. I'm not sure where
> to start to look for the answer to this, is this a file system problem?
- Posted by woodrow on October 7th, 2005
Thanks for the response, no cd or dvd in the drive, I'm on a wireless
network. I've recently added a wireless all in one machine to the network,
about a month ago. This problem has cropped up in the last 10 days or so.
"David Candy" wrote:
> "Program Not Responding" just means the program hasn't checked it's message queue for x seconds. If something takes an unexpected long time this will happen (after all Windows can't tell why it's not picking up it's messages so it guesses that it has crashed - if the program starts getting it's messages again windows will note it and list it as responding again - don't terminate the program when asked - it's just a timer message).
>
> Do you have a network connection (perhaps an old one not used) or a DVD or CD in the drive?
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> "woodrow" <woodrow@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:928E9A15-F302-4D09-BD41-2978BE79EE9C@microsoft.com...
> > Lately whenever I click File, then Open or Save/Save as, there is a long
> > delay before the drop down box opens, listing the available drives, documents
> > etc. Sometimes I get a "program not responding" message. I'm not sure where
> > to start to look for the answer to this, is this a file system problem?
>
- Posted by David Candy on October 7th, 2005
Get filemon from www.sysinternals.com. Monitor the drop down box and see what it is looking for.
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"woodrow" <woodrow@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8ECD6EF0-3BF3-4786-9895-6A73552D92DE@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the response, no cd or dvd in the drive, I'm on a wireless
> network. I've recently added a wireless all in one machine to the network,
> about a month ago. This problem has cropped up in the last 10 days or so.
>
> "David Candy" wrote:
>
>> "Program Not Responding" just means the program hasn't checked it's message queue for x seconds. If something takes an unexpected long time this will happen (after all Windows can't tell why it's not picking up it's messages so it guesses that it has crashed - if the program starts getting it's messages again windows will note it and list it as responding again - don't terminate the program when asked - it's just a timer message).
>>
>> Do you have a network connection (perhaps an old one not used) or a DVD or CD in the drive?
>>
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>> "woodrow" <woodrow@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:928E9A15-F302-4D09-BD41-2978BE79EE9C@microsoft.com...
>> > Lately whenever I click File, then Open or Save/Save as, there is a long
>> > delay before the drop down box opens, listing the available drives, documents
>> > etc. Sometimes I get a "program not responding" message. I'm not sure where
>> > to start to look for the answer to this, is this a file system problem?
>>
