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 was having similar issues and traced it to network timeouts on Windows. In my particular case, it was due to ido.el, which keeps a cached list of directory contents. At startup, ido was trying to check the cached directories, which included network shares on both my home network and my work network – there were always some nonexistent hosts, no matter which network I was on.

Because my problem was originating with ido (sort of), the solution for me was to set ido-max-dir-file-cache to 0 (via customize-variable or init.el), then exit Emacs, delete ~/.emacs.d/.ido.last, and restart Emacs. Based on what I saw in another thread, it's important to make sure all instances of Emacs are closed before trying to delete .ido.last. There may be other ido variables that need to be changed, but so far, this solution is working for me.