30 secs. for folders to open

[John B]

Folders in "My Documents" take a huge amount of time to
open after double clicking on them. The computer wouldn't
even boot until I used Go-Back and ended up removing a
bunch of added music files. I dragged the Pictures &
Music to the desktop to get them out of My Documents, and
still, it takes a long time to open any folders in My
Documents. This is NOT the first computer this has
happened to. Is there a limit of some kind as to how much
data you can stick in one folder in Windows 98?

[Ron Badour]

Only one folder has a limit--My Documents. Move everything out of it to a
new folder. If this cures the problem, find a new home for the stuff you
moved and limit how much goes into My Documents in the future.

--
Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"John B" > wrote in message
...
> Folders in "My Documents" take a huge amount of time to
> open after double clicking on them. The computer wouldn't
> even boot until I used Go-Back and ended up removing a
> bunch of added music files. I dragged the Pictures &
> Music to the desktop to get them out of My Documents, and
> still, it takes a long time to open any folders in My
> Documents. This is NOT the first computer this has
> happened to. Is there a limit of some kind as to how much
> data you can stick in one folder in Windows 98?

[Touch Base]

Sometimes a folder, especially My Documents, seems to take forever to open up. A possible cause of this
behavior is too many files in the folder but only if you have thousands of files.

See Microsoft Knowledge Base article
Opening a Folder Takes a Long Time
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q153/1/14.asp.

This problem can also arise, according to some reports, from having over ~100 sub-folders in My Documents,
which can cause all folders to be slow in opening. This happens because of the special nature of My Documents,
which is a particular type of system folder. Judging from the many discussions in the Microsoft Newsgroups,
the folder My Documents is particularly subject to frequent slow-down problems that are not always easy to
pinpoint. The easiest thing to do when the My Documents folder gets very slow at opening may be to create a
new folder in a convenient place and to move some of your files there.


"John B" > wrote in message ...
> Folders in "My Documents" take a huge amount of time to
> open after double clicking on them. The computer wouldn't
> even boot until I used Go-Back and ended up removing a
> bunch of added music files. I dragged the Pictures &
> Music to the desktop to get them out of My Documents, and
> still, it takes a long time to open any folders in My
> Documents. This is NOT the first computer this has
> happened to. Is there a limit of some kind as to how much
> data you can stick in one folder in Windows 98?

[Steve Baron - KB3MM]

"John B" > wrote in message
...
> Folders in "My Documents" take a huge amount of time to
> open after double clicking on them. The computer wouldn't
> even boot until I used Go-Back and ended up removing a
> bunch of added music files. I dragged the Pictures &
> Music to the desktop to get them out of My Documents, and
> still, it takes a long time to open any folders in My
> Documents. This is NOT the first computer this has
> happened to. Is there a limit of some kind as to how much
> data you can stick in one folder in Windows 98?

Of course there is a limit.