icons switch when opening folders

[John Kleinhans]

(Running XP home on a new HP).
I have of lots of image files which open in Adobe
Photoshop 7. When I open a folder of pictures the icon in
front of each image name switches to the Photoshop icon.
This takes about one and a half seconds per file and I
have perhaps a hundred or more files in a folder. While
this switching is going on I basically can't do anything
with the files, for example, drag them to a CD burner
window; everything just stops. If this just happened the
first time you opened the folder I could live with it, but
it starts over every time. It drives me crazy. This never
happened with my old Gateway on ME. I can't find anything
in folder options etc. to help. Any ideas out there?

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

In Windows Explorer go to Tools, Folder Options and look for Do not cache
thumbnails. Make sure this option is unchecked.