By the way, what virus scanner is everyone using? I'm using McAfee VirusScan corp version (4.5.1 sp1) on all my machines, and am not experiencing the problem on any of them.
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Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry Cox
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Question. Do the people who experience this have their systems setup to single click to open or to doubleclick to open. I do not have the problem and I am setup to single click to open files, so that they automatically get selected on mouseover.[size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
Ryzen: Asrock B450M Pro4, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 RAM, 1TB Seagate SATA HD, 256GB myDigital PCIEx4 M.2 SSD, Samsung LI24T350FHNXZA 24" HDMI LED monitor, Klipsch Promedia 4.2 400, Win11
Home: M1 Mac Mini 8GB 256GB
Surgery: HP Stream 200-010 Mini Desktop,Intel Celeron 2957U Processor, 6 GB RAM, ADATA 128 GB SSD, Win 10 home ver 22H2
Frontdesk: Beelink T4 8GB
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I'm on call at the moment, stealing a moment on the hospital computer. Gone back to work[size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
Ryzen: Asrock B450M Pro4, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 RAM, 1TB Seagate SATA HD, 256GB myDigital PCIEx4 M.2 SSD, Samsung LI24T350FHNXZA 24" HDMI LED monitor, Klipsch Promedia 4.2 400, Win11
Home: M1 Mac Mini 8GB 256GB
Surgery: HP Stream 200-010 Mini Desktop,Intel Celeron 2957U Processor, 6 GB RAM, ADATA 128 GB SSD, Win 10 home ver 22H2
Frontdesk: Beelink T4 8GB
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Mine is set to doubleclick as well, with no problems.Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry Cox
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The Inquirer = The LieQuirer.
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If only life were as easy as you
I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
If only life were as easy as you
I would still get screwed
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Steps to try:
Open up Task Manager,
Go to Performance.
Open up "My Computer"
Then a Single Right Click on C: drive...
On my Intel Duallie, this is what I get:
On single CPU Machines the CPU pegs at 100%Hey, Donny! We got us a German who wants to die for his country... Oblige him. - Lt. Aldo Raine
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I figured it out! Yay me! It's to do with the "show common tasks in folders" setting. I've always set it back to classic folders, so I've never had the problem. Check it out.
Classic folders:
XP default folders:
Everybody check to see if this reproduces the problem for you...Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry Cox
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