folder delay on laptop

[JAYNO20]

It does this at sparatic times, sometimes its fine other times its not.... the problem is this, when i click on a folder sometimes as soon as i click on it the contents will pop right up, other times it will pause for a second or 2 before letting me do anything, it does this if i hit the folder up button or the back/forward button too... i just upgraded my system to 2GB RAM, 100GB 7200RPM HDD, T7200 Core 2 DUO 2.0ghz processor... i've seen laptops with 512 ram and celeron processors not do this, so its kind of annoying... the laptop is brand new so there isnt any spyware or viruses on it (plus i make sure of that kind of thing of course) i have also defragmented and boot time defragged...

[glc]

Do you have a CD in the drive? Any USB devices or card readers with media in them?

[JAYNO20]

no nothing in any of those... anything else?

[Ob1]

what laptop do you have? how many running processes do you have? open task manager and look in the bottom left.

are you running any mcafee, or norton antivirus with all that spam blocking/monitoring stuff? if so disable all of that and see if that speeds things up, or better yet, uninstall all of it and use AVG.

if this is a dell run decrapifier to remove all the unnecessary crap that dell puts on there pc.
http://www.yorkspace.com/pc-de-crapifier/

[JAYNO20]

yeah its a dell E1505, reformatted the day i got it, and i use NOD32 which has a very small footprint... i have noticed only one thing so far.. if i am playing music (using musicmatch) the problem disappears.... any ideas?

[JAYNO20]

ok its the sigma tel c audio drivers... if i go into device manager and disable it everything works perfectly (it also works perfect in safe mode) or even if i change the sound output to bluetooth audio its fine... it doesnt seem to like using the sigma tel output.. what can i do to fix this? all the drivers are up to date, and as far as i know i dont have any other options for drivers other than the ones listed on the dell website...

[JAYNO20]

ok after about an hour of installing and uninstalling drivers i figured out that the problem was the windows "tick" sound.. i turned it off and everything is good... i just wonder why that sound would cause such a delay in showing folder contents..?