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Windows Explorer trouble

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neither simple, nor coherent.
Mm, I know this isn't the right place for it, but someone else had a folder problem, so...

For the past few months, I've been having a problem when trying to delete or rename something. When deleting, a box pops up saying "calculating time remaining" as the file deletes. It will not go away when I hit the close button (it only says "canceling"), and I can only get it to leave by end-tasking. Note that if I try to delete it in a file upload box like so, Firefox becomes unresponsive and I have to end-task it. When renaming a file or folder, the window becomes unresponsive and I have to end-task it. Also, once I bring it up again, the file has been deleted and/or renamed.

While this is obviously not an urgent issue, it is annoying. Any help in curing the trouble would be much appreciated. Thank you.

(in case you couldn't tell from the screenshots and in case it's relevant, I use Windows Vista Home Basic and Firefox 3.0.1.)
 
I really don't have any extensive knowledge on a problem like this, but I'm going to take a wild guess that this may either be a glitch in your installation of Vista, or maybe (80% chance sure this is not the case) you might have a virus.

I personally would not spend time to correct it. I would just back up and re-image (reinstall) Vista, but that is me. I know most people don't like to dedicate as much as 2-3 hours on a computer problem like I do, but this
 
I wouldn't think it's a virus because I have exactly the same problem here, and with my parents' computer that runs vista. I assume it doesn't happen on every computer with vista, though.

I'll watch this thread as well because I want an answer. This gets so annoying when it takes ages for explorer to start again.

EDIT: What antivirus are you using? If it's AVG, it could be that, because my mum installed AVG on her computer and it made everything run slowly and crashy. When we uninstalled it it ran normally again. (but she was on vista premium, so it might be different)
 
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