Makes sense - Explorer and DOpus (under the default DOpus settings) both try to spin up any CD drives in the system before displaying the contents of the folder tree, so they can display the name of the cd beside the little icon right off the bat. A silly practice if you ask me - it'd make more sense to display everything then UPDATE the cd rom's label... but MS doesn't listen to me because I have *good* ideas and that's the LAST thing they want... ;)

Anyway yeah, as explorer/dopus tries to spin up your drives, if the cd rom is having trouble reading the cd, the program will essentially hang while trying to read the cd label.

Solutions:

- Explorer: Just make sure there's no CD in the drive when you open it... Quite a hassle.

- DOpus: In the Settings menu choose Preferences. In the Lister Defaults section of the prefs, in the Initial Folders tab, there's a sub-section titled "Prevent automatic loading of certain types of folders:"... Check CD-ROM's (and for good measure, check Floppies as well).

Using the DOpus solution you're free to keep CD's in your drive and it won't slow down the opening of your file manager :D

Note to everyone else who reads this: If you don't know what Directory Opus is all about, google it up right now. Going from Explorer to DOpus is like going from a Pentium 75MHz to a P4-2GHz system ;) Faster, more stable, and lots of REALLY usefull features like mapping hotkeys to jump to specific directories to save navigation time, etc.