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Continued - Windows Explorer is slow reading directories
Would appreciate any tips or suggestion on where to start tracking this down. Thanks. Petre. Hi Petre, A coupld of years back I had the same problem when opening Windows Explorer. As it turns out my particular problem was having too many subfolders under C:\My Documents (which has been discussed in this thread already). Once I re-structured my folders as to have a limit of 75 subfolders in C:\My Documents the problem was solved. I understand that your problem is with your "D" drive and you have 0 subfolders under C:\My Documents but the reason I bring this up is about year later I was having the same problem -- Windows Explorer was extremely slow. At the time the only 'fix' I knew of was defragging and to keep a limit of 100 subfolders under C:\My Documents only this was happening when viewing another partition where I now had many of my files/folders. It was set up similar to your C:\, D:\, and E:\ partitions. Since most of my files where now on D:\ I took a look and found it somthing like this.: D:\My Documents\ -- 75 subfolders D:\My HTML\ -- 425 sublfolders D:\My Images\ -- 225 subfolders D:\My PDF\ -- 150 subfolders Since defragging/rebooting didn't cure the problem and the only other known remedy was to keep the subfolders below 100 (in C:\My Documents) I re-organized the entire drive (8Gb) so the most subfolders any folder off of D: would have was 75 Once done organizing the folders I defragged again the rebooted. For me the problem was solved. Explorer never slowed down for me again. I can't quite explain the whys but for me it took care of a very slow Explorer and it might be worth trying on your PC. Also a link below to check out. http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...t2/wrkc10.mspx Hope this helps, John ;-) |
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