Temporary hang during file search and my documents

Hi. My win2k computer has recently been doing something that's become
rather annoying...it's hangs for about 15-20 seconds when I either
start a file/folder search, or when I try to open a file form the 'my
documents' folder.

When I do a search, I type in the search string and hit start search,
at which point it hangs. I can minimize the window at that stage, but I
can't remaximize it until about 15-20 seconds has passed, when the hang
stops and the filesearch starts as normal.

When I try to open a file under my documents, I get similar behavior.
After minimizing (after the hang has started), if I rightclick on the
toolbar icon for the mydocs filder and click 'close', I get the
'program is not responding' error , and have to kill manually. If I
don't do that, the file I clicked on will usually open ok, after about
20 seconds. The hang situation for mydocs seems worse tho as, if during
the hang period, I move another window etc over it , the mydoc window
is not refreshed, and often I can't do anything at all.

Someone has told me it may be looking for a device which was
uninstalled incorrectly etc., but I don't know what that would be, or
how to fix if so. Thanks for any info!

BH

In article <1162007143.261203.259180.RemoveThis@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,
bluehorshoe_68.RemoveThis@yahoo.com says...
> Hi. My win2k computer has recently been doing something that's become
> rather annoying...it's hangs for about 15-20 seconds when I either
> start a file/folder search, or when I try to open a file form the 'my
> documents' folder.

Odds are it is looking for a drive letter or network share that no
longer exists or is off-line.

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