Small resource problem since recovery

As some of you may know my system had a hiccup last night and I chose to perform a system recovery. Well, now since the restoration, windows explorer will take up to 200mb of ram just to open a folder. Everything lags... But when I open a program everything is normal, just seems that browsing thru my folders sucks away resources and lags everything down... I just checked event viewer, its clean, device manager is good. Msconfig only shows 2 items under start up that are checked. I do have a lot of services disabled and in 'manual' mode, does explorer rely on a certain service? Btw, superfetch and readyboost are disabled, as they were before the recovery, didn't have any effect then...

Idk what else to check, this is really random. It does it even when the folder I'm trying to view is set to 'List' so its not that. Even thumbnails are disabled...

Thanks in advanced for any suggestions.

Something others have experienced...
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/190799-explorer-exe-using-almost-3-gigs-my-ram-help.html

Do you have the option to open explorer windows in another process? Uncheck that in folder options. Also, reset your services back to default, except for some like networking which you can adjust for yourself, like the offline files cache. Reboot and run a scan with SAS and Malwarebytes, too. What antivirus are you using?

Frostmourne said:

Do you have the option to open explorer windows in another process? Uncheck that in folder options. Also, reset your services back to default, except for some like networking which you can adjust for yourself, like the offline files cache. Reboot and run a scan with SAS and Malwarebytes, too. What antivirus are you using?

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I did have it set that way, yes. Just changed it back over... I'm using AVG as my A/V, I know for a fact its not malicious related. I just did system restore and only downloaded drivers from hp's site, everything else was done offline.

EDIT: I looked into that thread and didn't see a real answer as to why it was happening.

Before the restore, did you uninstall any programs that might have been erased by the restore?

The programs I had I installed again after the recovery, I'm not quite sure I understand your question...

Did you install any programs and then after the system restore, they could have been deleted? What caused the system restore in the first place?

I ran a defrag for the boot files, it deleted the boot manager, I couldn't boot into any instance of windows. Not even safe mode. So I was forced to restore...

But no, all programs are installed, except paint.net and open office.

Try a full, clean install.

Dont have a retail Vista disk, trust me if I could I would.

I generated a health report and it had a device warning for my hard drive, saying the average drive que was 1.02 seconds. It had a link to a microsoft site saying to defrag the hard drive. So I ran it, nothing. I'm running it a second time, it seems okay now. No jumps from ~20mb to ~200mb just by opening a folder. I also ran SFC to see if there is anything in there.

EDIT nevermind, its still doing it. I might be forced to re enabled superfetch or go down to XP, I have those disks...

From all the sources I've read, I never found an answer. And it's been posted at least twice on vistax64. Sorry.

Use Auslogics for a defrag.

lemur said:

From all the sources I've read, I never found an answer. And it's been posted at least twice on vistax64. Sorry.

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No, don't be. Its fine. Isn't your fault

Frostmourne said:

Use Auslogics for a defrag.

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I already ran defrag.exe twice. Nothing. It seems the more I open a folder the faster it responds...

What about ReadyBoost - just for the heck of it?

Good idea. Re-enable readyboost and superfetch

What about using filemon and regmon from sysinternals.com to track down the problem?

Just did that to no avail. Still spikes it for a good 20 seconds before it opens the folder. Let me try to snip how much its using as I click on a folder

lemur said:

What about using filemon and regmon from sysinternals.com to track down the problem?

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I'll try it. What do they do?

Mea culpa. It's process monitor (which replaced filemon and regmon). This will allow you to see exactly what is going on with explorer.

Process Monitor

Never mind. That was a dumb question. I already have that on the machine. I'm using it now

I remember one time when I was going thru the registry and I was removing keys from old uninstalled programs, when I was finished, this is how explorer acted. Slow.