Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, X toolkit) of 2004-03-22 on cm-test configured using `configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --localstatedir=/var --datadir=/usr/share --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --without-toolkit-scroll-bars' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: nil locale-coding-system: nil default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: When running under cygwin (and possibly other systems), every time you change directories with dired, the program is very slow. You can fix this by customizing the option Dired Free Space Program to none; the delay goes away. You have to set it to none even though it shows the value is already none. You can change it for the current session and it fixes the problem. If you try to apply the change for future sessions, it never works. In other words you have to do this every time you run the program to get rid of the delays in changing directories under dired.