Folders w/photos are painfully slow

[Guest]

A few months back I replaced my 1 gb CPU with a new Intel Core 2 CPU machine.
Everything is o much faster now with one exception. When I click on a photo
directory to get a detail listing of the 200 or so photos, it might take
10-15 seconds to show the detail list. On my old machine that would have
taken only a second or two. If I then change the view from Detail to
Thumbnail, it might take as much as 3-4 minutes to complete the process.
Again, on my old machine that process would have taken just 10-20 seconds.

A friend suggested that maybe McAfee AV was checking each and every file
every time I accessed this folder. I did un-check something in McAfee
relating to checking every file already resident on my machine and that
improved the process by maybe 10%. But there is something still causing a
bottleneck in displaying the thumbnails.

Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

You don't say if you are opening your photo's using Picture Manager or not.
If so this might solve your problem.

Office Picture Manager becomes slow to open
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Article ID : 555592
Last Review : April 9, 2006
Revision : 1.0
SUMMARY
When opening Microsoft Office Picture Manager it becomes slow to open

CAUSE
Directories that are referenced in OIScatalog.cag no longer exist

RESOLUTION
1. Find file OIScatalog.cag that is in your Profile path %\Documents and
Settings\<YOUR_PROFILE>\LocalSettings\Application Data\Microsoft\OIS%
2. Look for "MRU PATH"
3. Delete all PATHS that no longer exist

 

[Leonard Grey]

Hi Fred:

Well, first things first: The act of replacing your processor wouldn't
cause the problem you're having. If the processor was the problem
everything would be affected, not just one folder. (BTW: Your old
processor was more likely 1 GHz, not 1 GB.)

You haven't provided any information that might suggest a cause for your
problem that has to do with Windows XP.

 

[LadyDungeness]

Did you turn cache thumbnails off? Maybe that's it ...

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Lady Dungeness
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:00:01 -0700, Fred615

|A few months back I replaced my 1 gb CPU with a new Intel Core 2 CPU machine.
|Everything is o much faster now with one exception. When I click on a photo
|directory to get a detail listing of the 200 or so photos, it might take
|10-15 seconds to show the detail list. On my old machine that would have
|taken only a second or two. If I then change the view from Detail to
|Thumbnail, it might take as much as 3-4 minutes to complete the process.
|Again, on my old machine that process would have taken just 10-20 seconds.
|
|A friend suggested that maybe McAfee AV was checking each and every file
|every time I accessed this folder. I did un-check something in McAfee
|relating to checking every file already resident on my machine and that
|improved the process by maybe 10%. But there is something still causing a
|bottleneck in displaying the thumbnails.
|
|Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

To clear up a couple of points; I am not trying to "open" any photos, just
trying to see what is in each directory, either in detail view or thumbnail
view. Either view is painfully slow compared to what existed on my old PC. I
have no trouble opening them with a couple of different programs, once I know
which files I want to open.

I replaced the entire PC, not just the CPU. I am running the same version of
XP Pro SP2. It is possible that I installed it with some different settings
or switches than what I had on my old machine which may be affecting the
listing of my photo directories.

The last post regarding "cache thumbnails" may be an issue. Can someone shed
some light on what it is and where and how I can check it?

Fred615