Recent content by stevem5000

Dalchina......I had not considered posting screen shots until you suggested it.......I wish I had read your comment sooner..... Thank you for your input......

I got it...!!!....the NAS drive was going bad.....need to figure out what happened there.... But when I unplugged the NAS......file explorer opened up normally..... There were a LOT of folks who replied with various suggestions.....Thank you all..... I think DarkShadowMD had the best...

Dalchina....no disrespect......I just had not gotten to you yet..... 2 attachments...screenshot 1 and screenshot 2....that gives you full view..... The computer i am referring is the one in my original post.... My C:\ drive is Samsung SSD 860 1 tb....I have about 800 gb free.....screen shot...

Opened Windows Exploreer from the right click on the start button......51 seconds......not acceptable.... This is a new install on old PC with previous win 11 and win 10 about 2 yr before that........Using Rufus to install win 11......I have 3 other computers...win 11... with old builds....1...

Dacron....i did the indexing thing....took about an hour.....rebooted..... Opened file explorer very quickly.......did it again.....slower......did it a 3ed time and took about 45 seconds..... I would say it didn't work..... But thanks for the tip...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (8 GB)

Spapakons....great idea....thanks...!!!

Win 11 Pro....25H2... 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700K (3.40 GHz) 32.0 GB (31.7 GB usable) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (8 GB) Rebuilt about 3 months ago.... Since the rebuild file explorer sometimes takes as long as 1 1/2 minutes to open.... At beginning opened pretty much normal time....then...

Glass kutter.....I don;t sell the PC's...I give them away.....and I tell them what I did to the PC's....

The 3 instances in Device Manager all have yellow "marks" beside them..... Do I assume those item do NOT work......or just have an older driver working...

I install W11 on many older PC's......In Driver Manager I will often have 3 drivers that do not install... And when I RClick to install drivers....Microsoft cannot find any..... And since these are older machines......going to the driver website I cannot find the correct driver.... The drivers...

This is an issue.......Turns out I discovered sometimes Outlook 2013 will NOT sync email accounts on HostGator.....There is a TLS bug that occasionally shows up.....and/or a corrupte credential cache and/or an Outlook profilel bug......usually fixed with a registry edit...

Try 3.....THAT is a good idea......I would have thought the Host Gator support I spent about an hour with yesterday would have known that..... Gonna dig into this

Rollback.....I tried that as my last effort late last night.....no joy.....exactly the same result....

Office Professional Pro 2016.......Outlook.... I set up a domain for a customer with HostGator.com.... I set up 2 email address and created passwords for each.... I can log into HostGatsor webmail no problem... Trying to setup Outlook 2016 for one of these emails....... I carefully entered all...