TC hangs about 10 seconds when listing driver root

wwynot · Post by *wwynot » 2012-04-12, 15:55 UTC

it happens when I press ctrl + \ to enter the driver root (c:\ for example). It also happens when I start TC with driver root being the current content.

Same problem happens on 7.56.

Sir_SiLvA · Post by *Sir_SiLvA » 2012-04-12, 17:12 UTC

Cant confirm that.
Sure you dont have a bad Network-Drive or CDs in your CDRom?

wwynot · Post by *wwynot » 2012-04-13, 01:05 UTC

Thanks for your reply!

I don't have any CDs in CDROM.

Regarding bad Network-Drive, I also suspect that's the reason. But I don't have any network-drive mounted. Also the problem happens when I listing C: drive.

BTW, my 64bits Windows 7 is in added in a corporate domain. Does that matter?

wwynot · Post by *wwynot » 2012-04-13, 01:06 UTC

BTW, I should say it hangs for about 20 seconds. which is really annoying.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-04-13, 06:59 UTC

Cannot reproduce. Does this happen only with a specific drive, or all drives? Maybe there is something in the root which the virus scanner doesn't like, like a huge archive or exe file?

wwynot · Post by *wwynot » 2012-04-13, 08:27 UTC

the windows explorer doesn't have the problem. I only have 1 driver.

there are 2 huge files which are pagefile.sys and higerfil.sys.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-04-13, 12:18 UTC

You can try the tool "process monitor" from www.sysinternals.com to check what is going on while TC hangs.

wwynot · Post by *wwynot » 2012-04-13, 13:03 UTC

It seems tc spent about 2 minutes to access C:\Widnows\CSC\v2.0.6\namespace\xxx and got NAME NOT FOUND. How to avoid this?

BTW, why TC try to access almost all subfolders recursively while loading the root?

wwynot · Post by *wwynot » 2012-04-14, 01:19 UTC

It seems that if there are .log files in my root, TC will try to access the default log viewer, which for my case is configured as:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Log.File\shell\open\command]
@="\"\\\\XXServer\\YYshare$\\tools\\Trace32.exe\" \"%1\""

Don't know how this was configured and how to change it. Any idea?

And since the Trace32.exe is from network driver, it will try to access the C:\Windows\CSC\namespace\XXServer and got NAME NOT Found and cost a lot of time.

Does TC access all associated program for files in the current folder? Why? Can we stop TC from doing this?

HolgerK · Post by *HolgerK » 2012-04-14, 11:57 UTC

Maybe:

Configuration -> Options... : Display(Icons)
[x] EXE/LNK not on net

helps in your case?

Regards
Holger

wwynot · Post by *wwynot » 2012-04-14, 15:18 UTC

Thanks HolgerK!

I already associated .log file to gvim which is on my disk. This resolved the hang problem.

I think the way you suggest must work as well. So I just followed it.

Post by *petermad » 2012-04-14, 20:18 UTC

BTW, why TC try to access almost all subfolders recursively while loading the root?

Maybe you have DirSizeCalc plugin installed and are using Custom columns ?

wwynot · Post by *wwynot » 2012-04-15, 02:52 UTC

petermad wrote:
BTW, why TC try to access almost all subfolders recursively while loading the root?
Maybe you have DirSizeCalc plugin installed and are using Custom columns ?

No. I haven't heard of it and I don't think I have such plugin installed. I just checked Configuration-->Plugin and there is no any plugin.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-04-16, 14:39 UTC

It seems that if there are .log files in my root, TC will try to access the default log viewer, which for my case is configured as:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Log.File\shell\open\command]
@="\"\\\\XXServer\\YYshare$\\tools\\Trace32.exe\" \"%1\""

TC simply tries to load the icon for that file. is there a DefaultIcon entry? If not, TC will try to get the icon from Trace32.exe. I guess that the file is then scanned by a virus scanner, which causes that long delay.