Hi all,

I have a IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet with internal official bluetooth, running windows 7. It all worked fine a while ago, but now:

When inserting a memory stick, connecting a mouse/keyboard, pairing a bluetooth device like a mobile phone, the resulting driver installation process takes extremely long, as in up to 20 minutes+ mostly displaying "Searching preconfigured driver folders...".

... and I don't know what is going on but a rundll32.exe proces flies through the roof in terms of disk read / write !

Mostly after a while it fails ...

I suspect that it has to do with something bluetooth (because the problem arose when I was messing with my bluetooth).

But I have no error-stated messages or bluetooth devices connected.

How unwise would it be to empty my driver cache folders from windows 7? Would that help?



I hope anyone can help; this is very annoying...



Thanks!

Remko

http://www.malwarebytes.org/ Download the free version, update it and do a quick scan. Get rid of anything it finds.

Could be malware. If it happened while messing with bluetooth, you could uninstall the bluetooth and reinstall it and see if that fixes it.

http://www.piriform.com/

You could download ccleaner and run it. Do a scan and see if any registry errors show up. Be very careful, you could brick your machine using it. Back up the registry with it if you are going to clean the registry. If you're comfortable going into the registry and getting rid of bad errors, that's safer. Then just do the scan and look at the list to see what's there. Probably going to be a lot.

Thanks for all suggesions, topmahof.
I did all of that.
-No malware.
-No registry errors worth mentioning.
-Deleted all bluetooth devices including their drivers.

BUT STILL: Same issues.


After a long time of "Searching preconfigured driver folders."

I wonder whether there are too many files in that folder.
(I have a download folder on a FAT32 partition on the SSD that takes a long time before all files show up - green load-bar in location bar.)

I have an SSD and i noticed that the "waiting for cache" in Google Chrome also takes longer sometimes.

Recently I've been fiddling with Ultimate Windows Tweaker ... Maybe I turned something off that I shoudn't have ...

For example: should I enable or disable SuperFetch with my Kingspec SSD?

And something else. In the screenshot above I noticed "ReadyBoot.etl". Does this mean that readyboot is running? Can / should I disable that somehow?

OK. That's a lot of questions again.

Thanks so much!

REmko//

BTW, here's a Windows 7 Test Report I ran when the system was having a hard time.
http://onderin.de.buro.la/test.html

And I did most of this because of the SSD:
http://ssdtechnologyforum.com/threads/781-Windows-7-SSD-Installation-Procedure

Cheers.

Have similar problem here with an X41T with SSD (the Lenovo one), installing driver for new devices is slow, wonder if the small files access issue is related to the SSD...?

FYI, there are about 1400 files consuming about 90MB of space under \windows\inf.

Tried cleaning up the unused/hidden devices (set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 first) and seems to help a little bit.

Cheers.