Green bar of slowness

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1101

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Uber Geek

#171293 13-Apr-2015 10:40

Hi there

Has anyone found a fix to stop the Win7,8,vista green progress bass of slowness

What happens is, sometimes, with inserting a USB stick (or CD with lots of subdirectories), Win wants to scan it & you must wait
30-60 sec & you get the green progress bar creeping along slowly.

lag

This happens on many PC's (not just the one).
Ive also seen the green progress bar slow downs even when open control panel, opening "Programs and Features" .
Ive even seen the slow green progress bar on a blank USB stick.

The issue I have is , unpatient users just will not wait for that progress bar & get angry with the wait. If you try & do anything why the bar is
progressing, it makes things much worse.
This then starts the comments of something wrong with the PC, or the PC is too slow.

None of the 'fixes' work. On our test PC, Ive disabled AV, disabled MS indexing service etc.

Any ideas appreciated.
Cheers

Xeon

302 posts

Ultimate Geek

#1282022 13-Apr-2015 12:31

SSD & USB3 Flash Drives (should) go fast.

1101

3122 posts

Uber Geek

#1282055 13-Apr-2015 12:49

Xeon: SSD & USB3 Flash Drives (should) go fast.

Yeah, but irrelevant .

This Win 'scanning' slowness Ive seen on EMPTY USB sticks, and on the control panel.

lxsw20

3552 posts

Uber Geek

Subscriber

#1282057 13-Apr-2015 12:50

Disabled autorun?

Xeon

302 posts

Ultimate Geek

#1282099 13-Apr-2015 13:18

1101: Yeah, but irrelevant .

This Win 'scanning' slowness Ive seen on EMPTY USB sticks, and on the control panel.

In the past when I've had folders load very slowly (such as control panel) it was because the hard drive was on high load and couldn't keep up. (I had an issue with my desktop for a while in that it would get 100% HDD load for the first 5-10 mins after boot).

Any of disk/cpu/ram high load when these issues occur?
I've always just accepted slow loading as being down to the pc/usb/cd being slow.

1101

3122 posts

Uber Geek

#1282727 14-Apr-2015 10:26

I'll try disabling autorun .
It may be something to do with Win7's preview mode, but thats something too usefull to disable for business users.

Its more likely to happen when a USB stick(with data on it) is inserted into a PC that has never 'seen' that stick before .
So its obviously scanning/reading the stick, but why , and what is scanning it.
And Ive seen it on a blank/formated USB stick. Just what is it scanning on that, there are no files .

This happens on many PC's , incl I5's with plenty of speed . Also happens on our workshop test PC, which is free from crapware etc and had nothing else running at the time (so not a speed/resource issue)
If it was a speed issue, I would have thought this would happen every time. Its quite intermittent.

Its a particular issue where the users are just impatient & expect everything to be instant.
Also an issue with Win7 PCs connecting to some dictation devices (when the device is docked) . The new dictation hardware has
2 mem cards in it, so double the chance of this happening compared to older dictation devices.

Cheers