To improve the performance of the recycle bin, you can either reduce it's
size or verify that you have no background tasks running. Unfortunately,
the recycle bin's cleanup thread is a system priority 1 (lowest you can go
without halting the CPU) and was put in the critical path for explorer.exe -
it has to finish cleaning before the Windows shell will return. This design
flaw appears to be fixed in Vista. I'm glad this was the issue and not some
strange interaction between some service and explorer.exe.
FYI - Offline files and Outlook's Offline folders have the same flaw, at
least through Windows XP and Office 2003.
Mike.
"Picker" <Picker[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > 1. I was deleting with right click and delete pull down menu in Explorer > or > any active program. > 2. I tried Shift-Delete and it worked OK. > 3. I emptied the Recycle Bin which took several minutes, must have been > full. > 4. Tried a regular delete and is now working OK. > Thanks for your help Mike. If I have more troubles I will respond. > > "Michael D. Ober" wrote: > >> "Picker" <Picker[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:178ABCE5-656C-4269-8AB2-29D211AB9B89[ at ]microsoft.com... >> >I am using Windows XP Media Edition SP3. Every time I try to delete a >> >file >> > on my hard disk, Windows hangs up. I can Alt-Ctrl-Delete and close the >> > non >> > responding software and my computer is restored. What's going on here. >> > Thanks. >> > >> >> First, how are you deleting? If from an explorer window, is it explorer >> that locks up (check the process tab in task manager)? If so, try using >> Shift-Del to delete the file. If that doesn't lock up, empty your >> recycle >> bin and try a regular delete. Let us know the results of this testing. >> >> Mike. >> >> >> >
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