Folders are slow to show list

[Guest]

I have a 2 month old PC with an Intel Core 2 2.66 running XP Pro SP2. It is
very fast and powerful until I place the cursor on a folder containing photo
images. It will quickly show the full list of image files in the detail mode,
but the little icons before the file names take about a second each to go
from grayed out to a darker color. It seems like it is loking at each and
every image file and doing some pre-processing before it changes the color of
the icon.

Only when all the detail image filename icons are dark, can I change the
mode to thumbnails and expect a reasonably fast conversion from a detail
listing to a thumbnail listing.

If I try to change to thumbnails (200 images in the folder) before all the
icons are darkened, it can take upwards of 2-3 minutes to make the changeover.

If I wait until all the icons have changed over to darker ones, (usually
takes take 2-3 minutes for 200 images) and then I click to change to
thumbnails, it will take another 5-10 seconds to show them all.

On my old system, a 1 Ghz AMD with XP Pro SP2, the same process would take
about 5 seconds for the detail listing and then about another 5 seconds for
the thumbnails.

Something on this machine, most likely a setting or switch someplace in XP,
is really slowing down the detail listing within the image folders.

What should I be looking for to speed up the folder listing process?

Fred615

 

[Grand_Poobah]

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I have a 2 month old PC with an Intel Core 2 2.66 running XP Pro SP2. It is
very fast and powerful until I place the cursor on a folder containing photo
images. It will quickly show the full list of image files in the detail mode,
but the little icons before the file names take about a second each to go
from grayed out to a darker color. It seems like it is loking at each and
every image file and doing some pre-processing before it changes the color of
the icon.

Only when all the detail image filename icons are dark, can I change the
mode to thumbnails and expect a reasonably fast conversion from a detail
listing to a thumbnail listing.

If I try to change to thumbnails (200 images in the folder) before all the
icons are darkened, it can take upwards of 2-3 minutes to make the changeover.

If I wait until all the icons have changed over to darker ones, (usually
takes take 2-3 minutes for 200 images) and then I click to change to
thumbnails, it will take another 5-10 seconds to show them all.

On my old system, a 1 Ghz AMD with XP Pro SP2, the same process would take
about 5 seconds for the detail listing and then about another 5 seconds for
the thumbnails.

Something on this machine, most likely a setting or switch someplace in XP,
is really slowing down the detail listing within the image folders.

What should I be looking for to speed up the folder listing process?

Fred615

Do you happen to have an anti-virus program that scans each file it
encounters? That could slow down that sort of operation.

GP

 

[Guest]

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Do you happen to have an anti-virus program that scans each file it
encounters? That could slow down that sort of operation.

GP

I have th esame problem. Where can I find a compatible Miniport adaptor?

 

[Guest]

I have th esame problem. Where can I find a compatible Miniport adaptor?

For those who have a similar problem, I got the solution from a contributo
on another forum site. Ot relates to having Photoshop installed on your
system.

"Photoshop inserts a new function having to do with creating thumbnails of
images that it is associated with. If you right click on a jpg or tif or
similar and select Properties, you will see a tab called Photoshop Image. All
you have to do is to uncheck the Generate Thumbnails box and this won't
happen again for any of the filetypes that Photoshop is associate with."

I did as suggested and my phopo folders now respond instantly... Problem
gone...!