Spinning Blue Circle Problem

[Scarlett]

I am trying to move the contents of one hard drive to another on windows 7 relatively new PC. When I click on certain files (often a single picture) I get the blue spinning circle for AGES. Why does this happen?

[fender62]

read thread might help
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/blue-busy-circle-spinning-all-time/9fd556db-b062-4c62-a9fb-71fefa64355a