Explorer slow showing folders containing PDF files

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I have Windows XP SP2 and Acrobat Pro 7.0.9 on a Dell Precision
M65 about 4 months old.

Windows Explorer experiences a significant delay displaying the
contents of folders that contain large PDF files. Process Explorer
shows that during these delays explorer.exe is reading from the
disk at about 200 MByte/sec. The thread that's busy during these
delays is ntdll.dll!RtlAllocateHeap+0x18c. The duration of the
delay is proportional to the total size of the PDF files in the
directory. If I rename these files to have, say, .doc extension
instead of .pdf then the delay disappears. The delay to display a
folder containing 300 MByte of PDF files is about 25 seconds.
Enough to be really annoying.

In ShellExView I tried disabling all non-Microsoft extensions,
including several Adobe Acrobat related extensions. Made no odds.

Any suggestions?

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 2/19/2008 1:46 PM, and on a whim, (e-mail address removed)
pounded out on the keyboard:

I have Windows XP SP2 and Acrobat Pro 7.0.9 on a Dell Precision
M65 about 4 months old.

Windows Explorer experiences a significant delay displaying the
contents of folders that contain large PDF files. Process Explorer
shows that during these delays explorer.exe is reading from the
disk at about 200 MByte/sec. The thread that's busy during these
delays is ntdll.dll!RtlAllocateHeap+0x18c. The duration of the
delay is proportional to the total size of the PDF files in the
directory. If I rename these files to have, say, .doc extension
instead of .pdf then the delay disappears. The delay to display a
folder containing 300 MByte of PDF files is about 25 seconds.
Enough to be really annoying.

In ShellExView I tried disabling all non-Microsoft extensions,
including several Adobe Acrobat related extensions. Made no odds.

Any suggestions?

Does switching to Details view help?

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Does switching to Details view help?

I only ever use details view. :-(

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 2/19/2008 2:57 PM, and on a whim, (e-mail address removed)
pounded out on the keyboard:

I only ever use details view. :-(

I know you said you used Adobe Pro (for printing), but maybe try
installing Foxit Reader and let it be the default for viewing PDF's.
It's much smaller and faster than Adobe Reader. Adobe has become a pig
of a program ever since version 5 and there's no need for most to endure
with its slowness.

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