Changing drive with Hotkey (ALT + F1) is terrible slow now

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Changing drive with Hotkey (ALT + F1) is terrible slow now

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Not sure what was changed on my Win7/64 system, but now when
changing drives with (ALT + F1) FARr waits/stalls for several seconds
before opening the Drive Panel...

Any idea what could have happened? I didn't change any hardware
but had some software updates but I can't find out when it happened
exactly.

The problem even now happens in older FAR 32/64 bit version,
not just the current one which is even worse...

Thank you for hints, I'm quite desperate...
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Re: Changing drive with Hotkey (ALT + F1) is terrible slow n

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It also happens when choosing "Change Drive" from the menu...
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Check if all your drives can be accessed. Do you encounter the same trouble opening Explorer (Win+E)?
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Explorer works quick as usual, it's only FAR...
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What info is selected for being displayed in Drive menu? Play with Ctrl+[1-9] (disable everything) then try again.
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It's just two plain columns, no detail view - and this hasn't changed.

My guess would be there some drive error that delays maybe
(but Explorer doesn't stumble). Is there a timeout value or
an error log for such things?
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Re: Changing drive with Hotkey (ALT + F1) is terrible slow n

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Ah, it seems my Bluray drive makes problems and FAR stops waiting for it,
I'll dig deeper into this... Thank you!

To make it a feature request: if a drive times out allow to stop this or
change the timeout value.
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Re: Changing drive with Hotkey (ALT + F1) is terrible slow n

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I'm also having the problem, Alt-F1 is slow like hell.
Process Monitor shows that a 10-second delay happens after DVD drive (W:) access, see after "CloseFile W: SUCCESS".
The info displayed in the menu was only a volume label. When I switch it off, the menu is fast again.

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Bad disc in the drive?..
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No disc there at all. No virtual drives, a fresh Windows 7 x64 copy. Far 3 b3000 x64.
Ctrl-8 does help, but come on.
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Re: Changing drive with Hotkey (ALT + F1) is terrible slow n

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I believe that may be related to the following feature (should it be optional???)


[+] The CD drive type can be shown in the disks menu instead of the
faceless "CD-ROM" type. FAR will attempt to determine the type of
each of the CD drives available in the system. Known types are as
follows: CD-ROM, CD-RW, CD-RW/DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM

taken from here
http://farmanager.googlecode.com/svn/br ... atsNew.txt
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Re: Changing drive with Hotkey (ALT + F1) is terrible slow n

Post by John Doe »

It is optional. Press F9 in Disks menu.
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