OK. So here's my small, but really annoying problem. I have a heap of dvd rips in my videos folder. when I open it, all subdirectories and file operations take forever to work.

I noticed this green bar, like a progress bar going along the address bar and it seems that I can't do anything until this has finished, although it takes about 20 minutes to finish.

So that's problem number 1

second I downloaded a movie which was corrupted along the way. Now I can't delete it, change the name of it move it or anything. I have tried deleting it from windows explorer, in safe mode and via the command prompt, but every time explorer or the command prompt just hangs for a bit until vista decides to stop the process

So if anyone can tell me what the hell this green progress bar in the address field is all about and how I can delete a file that doesn't want to be deleted I would really appreciate it

cheers