Folders very slow opening

[Terry Pinnell]

Recently my WinXP Home PC has become very slow to open new My Computer
windows. Typically, I'll Shift (or Ctrl) left click a folder of JPGs
to go up one in the tree, and it might be 5-15 seconds before the
thumbnails appear.

Any ideas as to cause and fix please?

 

[BruceM]

Well assuming you have a Celeron 466 with 64 megs of RAM I guess things will
be slow.
We aren't mind readers?

 

[Keith]

Recently my WinXP Home PC has become very slow to open new My Computer
windows. Typically, I'll Shift (or Ctrl) left click a folder of JPGs
to go up one in the tree, and it might be 5-15 seconds before the
thumbnails appear.

Any ideas as to cause and fix please?

Have you installed any new software?
Have you installed Webroot Spysweeper?

 

[Rock]

Recently my WinXP Home PC has become very slow to open new My Computer
windows. Typically, I'll Shift (or Ctrl) left click a folder of JPGs
to go up one in the tree, and it might be 5-15 seconds before the
thumbnails appear.

Any ideas as to cause and fix please?

Is this just for folders with thumbnails? If so delete the thumbs.db
file which is a cache of the images. It is a hidden file. It will be
recreated the next time the folder is opened. See if that helps.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Well assuming you have a Celeron 466 with 64 megs of RAM I guess things will
be slow.
We aren't mind readers?

Eh? If I'd recently also changed my PC to a relatively slow spec such
as the example you give, then that might well account for the issue.
But then I might just have realised that, don't you think? The opening
sentence of my post should make it obvious that this is a new problem
on a normally fast system, with no mind reading assumed.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Have you installed any new software?

Yes, but nothing coinciding with these symptoms.

Have you installed Webroot Spysweeper?

No.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Is this just for folders with thumbnails? If so delete the thumbs.db
file which is a cache of the images. It is a hidden file. It will be
recreated the next time the folder is opened. See if that helps.

Yes, seems to arise only with thumbnails. Thanks, I'll try your
suggestion.

 

[Rock]

Yes, seems to arise only with thumbnails. Thanks, I'll try your
suggestion.

Ok, good luck.