Verrry Slow opening of jpegs

[Bob Williams]

I have an E-machine with a 2.3GHz Intel P4 CPU, 160 GB H.D., 1.5GB RAM,
Win Xp Home, and Norton Internet Security.
A month or so after I purchased the computer, it started to take a very
long time to open folders containing jpeg images.
Even when a folder contains only 15-20 images of about 1.5 MB each, it
will take 20-30 seconds to open it
Also, instead of displaying Thumbnails normally (View > Thumbnails is
checked), it displays a mixture of Thumbnails and Icons.
Once the folder is open, if I select VIEW > Icons, and THEN select VIEW

Thumbnails, all the thumbnails appear instantly.

If I close the folder and re-open it, all thumbnails are displayed
instantly.
For the life of me, I can't figure what causes this.
On my other computer (1.4GHz P4, 1.0GB RAM, Win Xp) the same exact
folder will open instantly with thumbnails properly displayed.
Any and all suggestions will be appreciated.
Bob Williams

 

[Yves Alarie]

Try the following
1. Open the folder, click on Folder options and View tab. Scroll down and
check the box Show hidden files.
2. Press F5 (refresh) and you should now see a Thumbs.db file listed in the
folder. Delete this file. Press F5 again.
3. Close the folder and open it, you will now have a new Thumbs.db file in
it. Did this solve the problem?

 

[John Inzer]

I have an E-machine with a 2.3GHz Intel P4 CPU, 160 GB
H.D., 1.5GB RAM, Win Xp Home, and Norton Internet
Security.
A month or so after I purchased the computer, it started
to take a very long time to open folders containing jpeg
images.
Even when a folder contains only 15-20 images of about
1.5 MB each, it will take 20-30 seconds to open it
Also, instead of displaying Thumbnails normally (View >
Thumbnails is checked), it displays a mixture of
Thumbnails and Icons.
Once the folder is open, if I select VIEW > Icons, and
THEN select VIEW
If I close the folder and re-open it, all thumbnails are
displayed instantly.
For the life of me, I can't figure what causes this.
On my other computer (1.4GHz P4, 1.0GB RAM, Win Xp) the
same exact folder will open instantly with thumbnails
properly displayed.
Any and all suggestions will be appreciated.
Bob Williams

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Running Disk Cleanup, Error Checking and
Defrag on a regular schedule may help.

(310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup
Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

(315265) How to Perform Disk Error Checking
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265
(check the two boxes..."Automatically fix file
system errors" and "Scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors") the utility will run
the next time you restart your computer.
(run error checking repeatedly until it finds
no errors)

(314848) How to Defragment Your Disk
Drive Volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314848

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

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[Bob Williams]

Try the following
1. Open the folder, click on Folder options and View tab. Scroll down and
check the box Show hidden files.

Did That.

2. Press F5 (refresh) and you should now see a Thumbs.db file listed in the
folder. Delete this file. Press F5 again.

F5 did not do anything so I clicked on VIEW > REFRESH.
But the thumbs.db icon never id appear.

3. Close the folder and open it, you will now have a new Thumbs.db file in

I was never able to get the thumbs.db file to display even though I
checked "Show Hidden Files" and "Refresh".
However I do seem to remember that in the past, the thumbs.db icon used
to appear (in gray) along with the image thumbnails. Don't know why it
no longer appears. So maybe that does have something to do with the slow
download speed of images in my folders

Did this solve the problem?

Not yet, any other suggestions?
Bob

 

[Yves Alarie]

Are you opening pictures with Windows Pictures and Fax Viewer (#1) or with
some other software like a photo editing software (#2)?

Do the following. Click on Start, click on Run and type the following in the
opening textbox:
REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL
and press the Enter key.
Note that there is a space between ...32 and SHI...
This will take a second to run.

If you are using #2, change this back to the default.
Right click on a photo.
Click on Open with on the opening menu.
Click on Choose Program at the bottom of the opening list.
Click on Windows Picture and Fax Viewer on the opening list and check the
box "Always...."

 

[Bob Williams]

Are you opening pictures with Windows Pictures and Fax Viewer (#1) or with
some other software like a photo editing software (#2)?

Do the following. Click on Start, click on Run and type the following in the
opening textbox:
REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL
and press the Enter key.
Note that there is a space between ...32 and SHI...
This will take a second to run.

Did that but only got the message:
"DLLRegister Server in SHIMGVW.dll succeded. No options were offered.
My problem is NOT with sloooow opening of an image in Windows Image and
Fax Viewer or Photoshop. Individual images open normally in these
programs. It is the opening of the Folder itself with Windows Explorer.
While the folder is opening and trying to show thumbnails, TASK MANAGER
shows Explorer.exe chugging away at 20-50% and System Idle Process
taking up the rest of the resources.
Bob

 

[John Inzer]

I have an E-machine with a 2.3GHz Intel P4 CPU, 160 GB
H.D., 1.5GB RAM, Win Xp Home, and Norton Internet
Security.
A month or so after I purchased the computer, it started
to take a very long time to open folders containing jpeg
images.
Even when a folder contains only 15-20 images of about
1.5 MB each, it will take 20-30 seconds to open it
Also, instead of displaying Thumbnails normally (View >
Thumbnails is checked), it displays a mixture of
Thumbnails and Icons.
Once the folder is open, if I select VIEW > Icons, and
THEN select VIEW
If I close the folder and re-open it, all thumbnails are
displayed instantly.
For the life of me, I can't figure what causes this.
On my other computer (1.4GHz P4, 1.0GB RAM, Win Xp) the
same exact folder will open instantly with thumbnails
properly displayed.
Any and all suggestions will be appreciated.
Bob Williams

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Try the following...

Do you happen to have Adobe PhotoShop or
Elements installed?

If you do...right click on a .jpg file and choose
Properties. Click the Photoshop Image tab
and uncheck the "Generate Thumbnails" button,
then click OK.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
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http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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[Bob Williams]

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Try the following...

Do you happen to have Adobe PhotoShop or
Elements installed?

If you do...right click on a .jpg file and choose
Properties. Click the Photoshop Image tab
and uncheck the "Generate Thumbnails" button,
then click OK.

John, You are a genius!
Your suggestion worked like a charm.
I have been battling that problem for months.
None of my guru friends have been able to solve it.
Neither they nor I suspected the problem had to do with Photoshop.
We all suspected Windows Explorer.
Task Manager did not show Photoshop using resources while images in the
folder were being displayed.
Also, it seems counter intuitive that one would UNCHECK "Show
Thumbnails" in Photoshop Properties, when that is precisely what we want
to happen.
Buy Hey! I don't argue with success.
I am one happy camper now Thanks a lot......Bob Williams
P.S.
Just for my own information, What made you suspect that unchecking
thumbnails in PS would solve the problem?.....Bob

 

[John Inzer]

John, You are a genius!
Your suggestion worked like a charm.
I have been battling that problem for months.
None of my guru friends have been able to solve it.
Neither they nor I suspected the problem had to do with
Photoshop.
We all suspected Windows Explorer.
Task Manager did not show Photoshop using resources while
images in the folder were being displayed.
Also, it seems counter intuitive that one would UNCHECK
"Show Thumbnails" in Photoshop Properties, when that is
precisely what we want to happen.
Buy Hey! I don't argue with success.
I am one happy camper now Thanks a lot......Bob
Williams

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You're welcome.

Thanks for the update.
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P.S.
Just for my own information, What made you suspect that
unchecking thumbnails in PS would solve the
problem?.....Bob

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It's a known issue, I've seen it many times before.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Making Good Newsgroup Posts
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