Re: Long pauses when opening files and other operations with emacs 23. and windows 7

[Uday S Reddy]

On 6/17/2010 4:59 AM, Keith S. wrote:

> Many other people have reported this issue, and several folks have
> offered advice. For instance, setting w32-get-true-file-attributes was
> certainly helpful for most of the slowdowns -- that wasn't a bug, but
> a change that was documented in a very old changelog. And one that
> most users, including myself, wouldn't have thought to connect with
> this problem.
>
> Right now, I think I MAY have further narrowed down the hanging
> problems with opening files thanks to a clue from this blog post:
> http://blog.zzamboni.org/solving-hangs-in-emacs-on-windows .

There is an excellent set of diagnostic tools for Windows called sysinternals:

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545046.aspx

Microsoft bought the company that made these tools and distributes them for 
free.  You can try using them to see what is going on when the hold-ups happen.

Cheers,
Uday