Slow Thumbnail Loading? Help

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I am running Windows XP and I find that images load very slowly in the
directory. How can I speed this up. It is driving me and more importantly
my wife crazy. I have to find a fix to this problem.

Thanks
 
Is this a recent occurrence, or has it always been like this?
How much RAM is installed in your computer?
What type of pictures are they, default or digital pictures that you have
scanned into the pc?
Then, you can also see if it's because your computer needs a bit of house
cleaning, delete temp files, cookies, etc.
Then, another thing you can try is go to the Start button.right
click>Explore>Tools>Folder Options>View and scroll down to, and place a mark
next to "Do Not Cache Thumbnails" okay your way out of that screen.
 
I am running Windows XP and I find that images load very slowly in the
directory. How can I speed this up. It is driving me and more importantly
my wife crazy. I have to find a fix to this problem.

Thanks
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Using the "do not cache thumbnail" setting as suggested would be
counterproductive. For speed, you want these cached otherwise Windows will
have to recreate them every time a folder containing images is accessed.

On the other hand, the cache might be corrupt and is causing slowness.
Temporarily enable that setting and delete all of the hidden thumbs.db
files. Enable the setting again. Whenever an image folder is accessed,
there will be a slight delay for the cache to rebuild but subsequent access
should be more speedy.

Also for large folders, consider creating subfolders and using them to
organize the images. That way the number of images (and thumbnails) in any
one folder is not excessively large.
 
'Sharon F' wrote, in part:
| Using the "do not cache thumbnail" setting as suggested would be
| counterproductive. For speed, you want these cached otherwise Windows will
| have to recreate them every time a folder containing images is accessed.
_____

Good advice. And the multi-folder suggestion also helps organization. With
digital cameras and flash memory, where once we had shoeboxes stuffed with
prints, now we have hard drives stuffed full B^)

Phil Weldon

| On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:38:01 -0700, Differentthinking wrote:
|
| > I am running Windows XP and I find that images load very slowly in the
| > directory. How can I speed this up. It is driving me and more
importantly
| > my wife crazy. I have to find a fix to this problem.
| >
| > Thanks
|
| Using the "do not cache thumbnail" setting as suggested would be
| counterproductive. For speed, you want these cached otherwise Windows will
| have to recreate them every time a folder containing images is accessed.
|
| On the other hand, the cache might be corrupt and is causing slowness.
| Temporarily enable that setting and delete all of the hidden thumbs.db
| files. Enable the setting again. Whenever an image folder is accessed,
| there will be a slight delay for the cache to rebuild but subsequent
access
| should be more speedy.
|
| Also for large folders, consider creating subfolders and using them to
| organize the images. That way the number of images (and thumbnails) in any
| one folder is not excessively large.
|
| --
| Sharon F
| MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User
 
I really meant clear the mark..not place a mark..sorry...As a matter of
fact, while typing this reply I almost typed, 'place a mark' AGAIN..sheesh.
 
I really meant clear the mark..not place a mark..sorry...As a matter of
fact, while typing this reply I almost typed, 'place a mark' AGAIN..sheesh.
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No problem, Ivee! I've also suffered from fingers not typing in the same
directions as my mind going, so know how that goes. ;^)
 
I blame it on age...;^)

Sharon F said:
No problem, Ivee! I've also suffered from fingers not typing in the same
directions as my mind going, so know how that goes. ;^)
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