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Storage? I am Storage!
We use a spare Windows 7 Pro box as a small workgroup server, with a couple of file shares and a couple of database server processes (although we're typically only using one at a time). Some time in the last few weeks, it's become frustratingly slow to respond. And there are weird issues when viewing a share from other PCs:
1. When you try to rename a file, it auto-selects the entire file name when you press a key, so the character you press replaces the file name ... this drives us crazy.
2. The explorer view of the share is constantly refreshing (progress bar across the top) - as soon as it has finished, it starts again.
About 3 weeks ago, right-clicking on *anything* in explorer, including desktop shortcuts, would display the 'hourglass' and just never come back. The only solution was to kill Explorer and launch a new instance. The sole exception was the Recycle Bin icon. The problem was still there even when running in Safe Mode *with* Networking, but finally went away in Safe Mode with networking disabled.
We disabled all non-Microsoft startup processes and that also worked. We then re-enabled all the processes, a couple at a time, but it continued to work even after all the processes had been re-enabled. So there was no nett change but the problem resolved without giving us any clue to the cause.
The corporate A/V is McAfee. I really wanted it to be that, but disabling on-access scanning made no difference then and makes no difference to the current issues. We've also run the Eset online scanner, but it hasn't found anything in the first hour anyway (we ran it twice, but the results aren't there to view when we come back after a few hours - which might be suspicious).
Could well be a bad Microsoft update, but how on earth are we supposed to find which one?
1. When you try to rename a file, it auto-selects the entire file name when you press a key, so the character you press replaces the file name ... this drives us crazy.
2. The explorer view of the share is constantly refreshing (progress bar across the top) - as soon as it has finished, it starts again.
About 3 weeks ago, right-clicking on *anything* in explorer, including desktop shortcuts, would display the 'hourglass' and just never come back. The only solution was to kill Explorer and launch a new instance. The sole exception was the Recycle Bin icon. The problem was still there even when running in Safe Mode *with* Networking, but finally went away in Safe Mode with networking disabled.
We disabled all non-Microsoft startup processes and that also worked. We then re-enabled all the processes, a couple at a time, but it continued to work even after all the processes had been re-enabled. So there was no nett change but the problem resolved without giving us any clue to the cause.
The corporate A/V is McAfee. I really wanted it to be that, but disabling on-access scanning made no difference then and makes no difference to the current issues. We've also run the Eset online scanner, but it hasn't found anything in the first hour anyway (we ran it twice, but the results aren't there to view when we come back after a few hours - which might be suspicious).
Could well be a bad Microsoft update, but how on earth are we supposed to find which one?
