Computer hangs waiting for large directories

[Fred]

I have a huge problem on my Win2K laptop. It is a fairly
beefy machine with lots of hard drive space. I have large
directories (with up to 1000 image files in them). When I
try to display these directories using "View as
Thumbnails" the scroll button hangs and the window will
just sit there waiting for the thumbs to load. Is there
any way of speeding this up? I have tried making the
directories smaller, even with 100 images, once I scroll
past a certain point, the elevator box shoots down the
window goes blank and the computer waits while the hard
drive crunches.

cheers
Fred

 

[Bryan]

I'm no expert but I'd say that the thumbnail view is just
taking up way too much memory. I would hope that windows
only loads a small percentage of the image data (e.g. every
10th pixel) but it may load the entire image into the
thumbnail. If the picture files are of high quality, this
would consume a very large amount of memory. The crunching
could be windows trying to operate from the page file,
having filled your physical ram with picture previews. Try
naming your pictures descriptively or categorizing them
with folders then using list view instead of thumbnail.

 

[Joshua]

I have a problem very much like this except it is not the
thumbnail view that is hanging it is loading the file icon
that is taking forever. I have folders with thousands of
JPG image files which are associated with photoshop. When
I open these folders in explorer it very slowly replaces
each of the generic file icons with a photoshop icon.
Anyway, it's driving me nuts as it wastes a lot of time
and resources.
I have tried changing the icon from the folder options,
file types UI but it still always very slowly loads the
darn photoshop icon. Any ideas for a fix? I'm not afraid
to edit the registry.

Thanks

For your problem, try allocating more or less system
memory to video. In BIOS - AGP apature size and update
your video drivers.