When navigating or moving files around in Windows Explorer, there is a significant delay before any operation completes. For example, when I rename a folder, sometimes there is a 1-2 second delay before the "edit name" view disappears and folder is successfully renamed.
This happens for both hard drives that I have installed.
Interestingly, the problem seems to be specific to Windows Explorer. If I create folders in Adobe Bridge or through Git Bash, the operation completes almost instantly.
I have tried, without success:
- Uninstalling programs such as Dropbox, 7-Zip and TortoiseGit
- Disabling anti-virus programs (Windows Firewall / MBAM)
- Disabling / clearing recent file history
- Disabling all non-essential services
- Disabling thumbnails
- Resetting Windows
What else can I try to diagnose or fix this problem?
EDIT
Process Monitor looks promising, but I am still finding it difficult to pinpoint the problem; when creating a directory, there are 47,896 events between the start and end of the operation!
There is no obvious long-running operation; only 42 events took longer than 0.0005 seconds and NONE took longer than 0.001 seconds.
(One outlier is SearchIndexer.exe, whose FileSystemControl event took 3.3 seconds. However this took place on a different drive and does not seem to have delayed any subsequent events. Out of an abundance of caution I ran the Search and Indexing troubleshooter, which identified and fixed a permissions problem, but the problem with Windows Explorer persists.)
