Long Delay when opening My Computer

**flyguy42** · March 5th, 2004, 06:34 AM

All of a sudden when I open My Computer or any program that shows the directory structure, there is a long delay... 30 seconds or longer I would say. During which I get the magnifying glass/folder animation. Nothing that I can think of has changed, except for my re-installing my HP 2510 Printer. Only think I can think of is that something is going on with the card readers on the printer, that is slowing it down? Any suggestions would be great!

**confus-ed** · March 5th, 2004, 06:48 AM

So pull it & see ?

Defrag & checkdisk too (with full boot scan) to eliminate any file system/ disk errors lurking .. have you got the disk indexing service running ? & what about the two smart card services ?

**flyguy42** · March 5th, 2004, 07:03 AM

Originally Posted by confus-ed

So pull it & see ?

Defrag & checkdisk too (with full boot scan) to eliminate any file system/ disk errors lurking .. have you got the disk indexing service running ? & what about the two smart card services ?

Well.. the printer is Wireless... so pulling doesnt get me very far.

Disk indexing was set to manual, as well as both smart card services. I started disk indexing and smart card service... but the smart card helper would not start... however... by the description it does not seem to apply to me. However.. I have not been disabling any services as of late....

Also, it didnt help.

I will try disableing the printer now...

**flyguy42** · March 5th, 2004, 07:07 AM

ARGH! I disabled the printer and now it opens just fine. Thats no fun. So now what do I do? I can't stop printing... what really pisses me off is that the reason I was re-installing the printer before was that I just purchased the latest software from HP. (I was having freezing problems with the old one). Hmph. Ideas?

**confus-ed** · March 6th, 2004, 04:16 AM

Originally Posted by flyguy42

Well.. the printer is Wireless... so pulling doesnt get me very far.

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- very sharp !

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But it makes things harder to figure out, I was thinking it was just a 'normal' printer .. this looks to be a very pertinent quote I found while googling & sums up a lot of folks thoughts on it ...

Pros: High quality fast printing, scanning, faxing, and copying built-in; easy to set up Wi-Fi; computer-less photo printing; scan images to specific computers (and applications) on same network
Con: Software can be a bear to load

So is this installed as a local printer or a network one with its own ip ? (& is this a model with a usb port as well ? )

& for reference HP PSC 2510 Photosmart All-in-One

**flyguy42** · March 6th, 2004, 04:52 AM

Yeah... it has USB, Ethernet, and 802.11b. As far as the software being a bear...its easy as hell. But man... I think I can install Windows XP and Office faster than the printer!

I did fix the problem though.. .ya know what it was? My router. I reset it.. .and poof! No more delay. Go figure. It wierd because I could still print and my network seemed okay....

BTW, it is installed as a network printer.

Thanks for the help by the way! I was feeling like a noob there for a min having printer problems. I thought that was reserved for the mildly retarded.

**confus-ed** · March 6th, 2004, 05:35 AM

Nice one ... so go turn off disk indexing again (unless your beast is a busy file server - don't need it)

**NooNoo** · March 6th, 2004, 07:14 AM

Aaah you want to turn off "automatically search for network folders and printers" This can be found in my computer, tools, folder options - view - first checkbox.

If it doesn't respond I will dig out the registry keys for it.

**pidburke** · May 30th, 2005, 06:37 AM

To stop the 30 second delay which is caused by installing the HP 2510 PSC all you need to do is disable the following service.

Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)

Doing this has had no ill effects on my system what so ever and it fixes the problem instantly without having to restart.

Hope this helps

Stu.