Hourglass for 10 sec when selecting folder

[Gerry Peters]

XP is very slow to show the contents of a folder, if there are many files in
the folder, yet Win98 did this quickly. I know XP is gathering info about
the folder's contents, but maybe I don't need that info, I simply want to
see the directory structure of the folder.

Sometimes I wait 10 or so seconds when in Win98, I would be waiting 1/2 sec.
I have an Athlon 64 with a fast processor. Is there a way to stop XP from
trying to second guess what I'm wanting to do next and have it simply just
show the folders. I have some huge folders, so this so called feature is
more like a bug for me.

Any settings I can change, so XP won't do this?

 

[Quaoar]

XP is very slow to show the contents of a folder, if there are many
files in the folder, yet Win98 did this quickly. I know XP is
gathering info about the folder's contents, but maybe I don't need
that info, I simply want to see the directory structure of the folder.

Sometimes I wait 10 or so seconds when in Win98, I would be waiting
1/2 sec. I have an Athlon 64 with a fast processor. Is there a way to
stop XP from trying to second guess what I'm wanting to do next and
have it simply just show the folders. I have some huge folders, so
this so called feature is more like a bug for me.

Any settings I can change, so XP won't do this?

Run disk cleanup and defrag your boot drive. I've had this same problem
on two new XP computers.

Q

 

[Gerry Peters]

Run disk cleanup and defrag your boot drive.<<

that didn't help, although defragging the D drive did help some. My D drive
is the problem, when I click on it it takes about 5 sec to display the
directory structure. It's a 200 gig drive with about 175 full. Lot's of
files and directories. Defragging my D drive made it some better instead of
7 sec it's 5 now. I liked the way Win98 would instantly show the directories

Oh the good Ol days

 

[Richard]

If you have many entries in My Network Places then go delete the ones not
being used and see if that helps. It did on mine.

 

[ewook]

XP is very slow to show the contents of a folder, if there are
many files in
the folder, yet Win98 did this quickly. I know XP is gathering
info about
the folder's contents, but maybe I don't need that info, I
simply want to
see the directory structure of the folder.

Sometimes I wait 10 or so seconds when in Win98, I would be
waiting 1/2 sec.
I have an Athlon 64 with a fast processor. Is there a way to
stop XP from
trying to second guess what I'm wanting to do next and have it
simply just
show the folders. I have some huge folders, so this so called
feature is
more like a bug for me.

Any settings I can change, so XP won't do this?

check if fast indexing is on for the catalouge. might be. do you have
anything that’s doing a on-access-scan?