Long disk activity when large files highlighted in Windows Explore

[Guest]

I just migrated a machine from W2000 Pro to XP Pro and found a new problem. I work with large (4 gig) video files. If I open Windows Explorer and simply highlight (single click) a file the disk activity light goes on for several minutes and system performance slowed radically. One of the effects of this is that it is now taking forever to open files in my Adobe Premier editing program. In W2000 none of this happened. File highligted in Explorer caued only brief disk activity and they opened immediately in Premier. Is there something in XP that requires reading through files as soon as they are accessed???

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Windows Stops Responding When You Click a Large AVI File in Windows Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822430&Product=winxp

Csrss.exe uses 100% of the CPU When you Right-Click an item in Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555021&Product=winxp

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Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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|I just migrated a machine from W2000 Pro to XP Pro and found a new problem. I work with large (4 gig) video
files. If I open Windows Explorer and simply highlight (single click) a file the disk activity light goes on
for several minutes and system performance slowed radically. One of the effects of this is that it is now
taking forever to open files in my Adobe Premier editing program. In W2000 none of this happened. File
highligted in Explorer caued only brief disk activity and they opened immediately in Premier. Is there
something in XP that requires reading through files as soon as they are accessed???

 

[Guest]

Windows Stops Responding When You Click a Large AVI File in Windows Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822430&Product=winxp

Thanks for the quick reply. I am requesting the hotfix from Microsoft. One further question. Would this index search also occur in other applications such as Premiere or is it only an issue with Explorer? If Explorer is open would Premiere somehow trigger it to do the search? ie Does Windows XP somehow include Explorer in its file access process if it is running?