OS freezes/stalls upon opening Applications folder

hey
for some reason or another my computer always seems to freeze for about a minute (whilst emitting some very stressed sounding noises from the processor itself) any time I access my Applications folder. I've tried defragging my hard drive, reinstalling the system numerous times, freeing up space on my drives and, sadly due to my inherint lack of any REAL computer knowledge per se...that was all I could think of. Any suggestions anyone??!!?

Hmm. Could you define the "stressed sounds" a bit more? If you have a ton of applications in the folder, it could be the hard drive doing its thing. Do you hear these "stressed sounds" at any other time?
Best,
~FifthWheel

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something caused them to be treated as packages instead of folders
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