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Willy2:
From time to time it takes LOTS of time to delete one file. Then a box with the message "Preparing" shows up and takes minutes (sometimes more than 3 minutes) before the system is ready to delete the file.

I tried to GOOGLE a solution it but I didn't find - up to now - no satisfactory solution for this problem. Yes, I can restart my system but it would be great to solve this problem without restarting.

jraju:
Hi, It is a problem with windows explorer. Does the windows explorer opens slowly?.Then you have to clean, defrag the concerned drives. Effective cleaning of cache everything would speed up the windows explorer. I could not get the link of re registering the explorer dll files. That is short cut method to speed up the windows explorer.
                                     Even some shield in the av program might be the cause for this. anyhow use chkdsk /r to repair file system to see the problem goes . Meanwhile i will try to get the link. I forgot the link, a veryuseful link in solving windows explorer problem

Julian:
Win_key+r  then type in prefetch select everything in that folder and shift+right click select delete so it will delete it not recycle it. Restart your computer twice so the prefetch gets its usual stuff added in the folder. After you do that do a chkdsk /f /r let it reboot check to make sure no kb in bad sectors let me know how it goes 😃

jraju:
Hi, Julian,
                      I failed to copy the link, in which reregistering of dll files solved the problem for me. If you know the commands pl share.
                                   It is a kind of deleting the dll and re registering the dll for explorer.exe

Willy2:
- I must add that it recently happened with *.mp3 files who were on a MicroSD card. So, fiddling with the prefetch folder won't help. Chkdsk didn't help either. "No problems were found".
- And it doesn't happen everytime. It happens in about 1 of 100 times I want to delete a file. And it happens when I have been using my laptop for an extensive period. (say over 2 hours). So, this would assume that Windows gets "entangled" with all the programs running. I tried to solve it by collapsing the "Standby" part of the memory, by closing A LOT OF programs running. But to no avail.

But when I restart my laptop then all is OK (again). Another hint that it's something inside the Windows system itself that got "scrambled up" and delays the deletion of a file.

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