viewers very slow in large subdirectories

[Howard Sartori]

In a subdirectory with many (7000) mixed .jpg/.gif/.bmp/.doc/.txt files,
Microsoft Picture and Fax Viewer and Microsoft Photo Editor are extremely
slow (30 seconds) to display the graphic/picture. (The application comes up
fast enough). Paint very, very fast.
Environment is WinXP Pro SP1a, 2.8GHz CPU, 1GByte RAM, 120MB SATA HD,
Any ideas why these products are so slow?
Thanks. /Howard

 

[Ferris]

caus you have a ton of files in ONE folder...separate them....organize by
whatever...date, type, name....come on...use your MELON.....

 

[t.cruise]

The Microsoft Picture and Fax Viewer IS slow. That's why I removed it and
replaced it with ACDSee for my default quick image viewer. If you don't
want to replace your image viewer, you might improve performance by limiting
the number of images in your subfolders, and create more subfolders to store
the excess images.

 

[Howard Sartori]

Thanks for the help. The ADCSee will work well. Problem is that this is
the Eudora mail folder and though I clean it out routinely it is big do to a
lot of message traffic .. Thanks. /Howard

The Microsoft Picture and Fax Viewer IS slow. That's why I removed it and
replaced it with ACDSee for my default quick image viewer. If you don't
want to replace your image viewer, you might improve performance by limiting
the number of images in your subfolders, and create more subfolders to store
the excess images.
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In a subdirectory with many (7000) mixed .jpg/.gif/.bmp/.doc/.txt files,
Microsoft Picture and Fax Viewer and Microsoft Photo Editor are extremely
slow (30 seconds) to display the graphic/picture. (The application

comes

up
fast enough). Paint very, very fast.
Environment is WinXP Pro SP1a, 2.8GHz CPU, 1GByte RAM, 120MB SATA HD,
Any ideas why these products are so slow?
Thanks. /Howard

 

[Alex Nichol]

The Microsoft Picture and Fax Viewer IS slow. That's why I removed it and
replaced it with ACDSee for my default quick image viewer.

Or I suggest the free IrfanView from www.irfanview.com, an excellent
program, I used to use ACDSee but have not actually loaded it for ages
now

 

[Dr. Phil]

then do this "cleaning" even more often...if you rationalize your
inability....you will succeed at hardly anything...