Emacs 23.1.50.1 hangs ramdomly for 6-8 seconds on Windows XP

Question

I have EmacsW32 23.1.50.1 emacs working on my windows XP machine. It hangs randomly for 5 to 8 seconds and quite frustrating.

Any one has solution?

I even trie

Answer 1

I had exactly the same problem using EmacsW32 23.1.50 on WinXP. One change I made that had a significant improvement (for me anyway) was to add the following to my .emacs file:

; try to improve slow performance on windows.
(setq w32-get-true-file-attributes nil)

It seems this variable was changed to default to "true" relatively recently and is known to cause some slow-down problems around file access. I still get some random hangs now and then (probably due to my .emacs customisations) but it is much better now.