hi megcoo, i m using 'windows live photo gallery' for pictures and 'vlc' for videos. RAM is 4 GB. windows hangs even before i open the pictures and videos, right after opening the folder while generating thumbnails.What do you use to open those pictures and videos? Generally videos take more system memory than an MP3 song takes. But what's wrong with the pictures? This seems system memory problem. What is your RAM?
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i tried that earlier, it hanged while copying..You know what, there's something you need to check. Just do one thing, copy all the pictures and videos in a Pendrive or any other external storage media. Then open them in any other system, for example: you can try to open them in your friend's system. If the system (your friend's system) doesn't hang while opening them, it means nothing unusual with them. You should format your operating system (only C: drive). Then install all the software which are required to open those files. Now open them, see if your system still hangs or not.
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sir i just tried that, again same response.I repeat myself: the easiest try is to right click your drive in Explorer and choose Properties / Tools / Defragmentation. It's done miracles for many.
The first thing, if the pictures are important is to copy them somewhere so if there was some corruption or a problem with the drive, you will not loose them.
How much free space is left in that partition?
In the Control Panel-Troubleshooting, there is a Performance checker. Perhaps it would give you some guidance..
You say the other partitions are working well, so does that mean you can open the same type of files from those partitions and the system does not hang?
Since the files open normally on other partitions, I would consider that something in that partition might be corrupted in some way and making the system deal with it.
I suppose, depending on your setup, it might be an indexing or scanning issue.
ok, i'm on it, will reply you with results ASAP.. thanks a lot for your support.Oh, not a good sign. Seriously, never faced such an uncommon situation. Do as I said, format your C: Drive and then try to open the files. Or you may check your hard disk by connecting it to any other system. Then try to open those files, are they getting opened or still not?
I'm working in this issue. Hope to be succeeded very soon.