Load up a picture, look at it...
Set Desktop Bit depth to 16 bit... look at it...
If you can tell a difference, let me know
You can still 'edit' 32 bit pictures, you just won't see 32 bits of color.
16 Bit = 65535 colors
32 Bit = 4294967296 colors
Also, make sure you delete any thumbs.db files after making the registry change. I would assume that it may be 'adding' new pictures to thumbs.db , but not re-doing the ones that were there before registry change.
You probably didn't notice this slow-down before, because you added your pictures , possibly 1 folder at a time? In which case, each time you added a new folder, it would only have to add that folder to the pre-existing cache.
If you can't see the file thumbs.db in each folder...
- Tools
- Folder Options
- View Tab
- Select "Show Hidden Files and Folders"
- Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files"
Once you get thumbs.db deleted, move out of, then back into your main/root pictures folder.
Scroll down and make sure it loads all pictures (which will populate thumbs.db fully) then you should be about where you were.
If you were 32 bit color depth before you re-installed, then you should be able to run 32 now.
Got your newest chipset/video card/directX drivers?
Also, you set the registry value to 32, right?
Other Tips:
Got a spyware/virus scanner?
- You may want to configure it to ignore your pictures folder.
Page File:
- This one may take a wee bit of time and will require a reboot.
- Kill all programs.
- Right Click "My Computer"
- Click "Properties"
- Click the "Advanced" tab
- Click the first "Settings" button
- Click the "Advanced" tab
- Click "Change"
- Your C drive should be highlighted, click "No Paging File"
- Click "Set"
- If you have any more drives, do the same... Dont forget to click "Set" after each.
- Reboot
- Defrag the drive you want to place your swap file. (It's going to be your 'fastest' drive you'll want)
- Once Defrag completes...
- Right Click "My Computer"
- Click "Properties"
- Click the "Advanced" tab
- Click the first "Settings" button
- Click the "Advanced" tab
- Click "Change"
- C: should be highlighted, Click "Custom Size"
- Usually, we set this between 1.5-2x your RAM, unless you have over a gig, in which case 1024 is fine.
- I have 768 megs of RAM, so I Calc'd it to 1152 (or 1.5x)
- Click "Set"
- Click "Ok" > "Ok" > "Ok"
What you just did there, was set a static sized page file, which now has 0 fragments. When you let windows manage your page file, it starts it out very small, then grows 'as needed'. This can seriously fragment the pagefile across your paging drive, causing much slowness. Also, if windows needs more page file, it won't have to Check, Allocate, Check, Write - It will simply read/write.
If after all that, and it's still slow, check this thread out.
http://www.alegsa.com.ar/Visitas/index11/Slow thumbnail cache.php
If after all that, and it's still slow, Gun In Mouth > Pull Trigger =)
p.s.
Ooh, online insta-access to j0r pix