Large Folders take several minutes to open

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I'm running windows 2000 server, I have some folders that
contain 40 to 50 thousand files. It can take explorer
many minutes to open such a folder. Is there anyway to
improve windows for handling large numbers of files?

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You could try the steps in the following article:

817075 How to Identify and Troubleshoot NTFS Log File Size Bottlenecks in
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=817075

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"Ron S" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm running windows 2000 server, I have some folders that
> contain 40 to 50 thousand files. It can take explorer
> many minutes to open such a folder. Is there anyway to
> improve windows for handling large numbers of files?

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