This has never happened with all of the Windows OSes I have used before (95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT, 2000 Pro.)

When I open a folder (any folder) with Windows Exporer it takes a painfully long time.

I am pretty sure it's NOT a low resources issue b/c it takes a long time even if I have no program opened (except those very few running in the background.)

I have got 512 MB of Ram in this box running a PIII 900MHz.

Using other programs to explore folders do not take time at all. Just when using Windows Explorer that it's a crawl.

Any idea.