XP Home SP2 : slow desktop icons refresh?

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Mr.Ekko

Hello all,

I'm using XP Home SP2 on a P4-2.4GHz system with 1.5GB RAM.

For a while I noticed the following annoying behavior:

If I close a folder on my desktop, thus "revealing" the underlying desktop, sometimes it "comes up" at first with all
icons displayed with a "generic representation" (some kind of "white box").

It can then take several seconds (let's say up to 5s) for the system to "repaint" the icons with the correct bitmaps.
(I have about 40 icons on my desktop). At other times, the desktop comes up correctly "near-instantly".

I don't think it is due to insufficient memory: task manager /performance tab displays about 600MB peak memory usage,
while I have 1.5GB physical RAM, and a swap file that has 750MB min. (and max size set to 1.5GB).

I also tried deleting "iconcache.db", and that didn't change anything.

So what's causing it? Any setting I can change to eliminate this "slow icon refresh" behavior?

Thanks.
 
Mr said:
Hello all,

I'm using XP Home SP2 on a P4-2.4GHz system with 1.5GB RAM.

For a while I noticed the following annoying behavior:

If I close a folder on my desktop, thus "revealing" the underlying
desktop, sometimes it "comes up" at first with all icons displayed
with a "generic representation" (some kind of "white box").

It can then take several seconds (let's say up to 5s) for the system
to "repaint" the icons with the correct bitmaps. (I have about 40
icons on my desktop). At other times, the desktop comes up correctly
"near-instantly".

I don't think it is due to insufficient memory: task manager
/performance tab displays about 600MB peak memory usage, while I have
1.5GB physical RAM, and a swap file that has 750MB min. (and max size
set to 1.5GB).

I also tried deleting "iconcache.db", and that didn't change anything.

So what's causing it? Any setting I can change to eliminate this
"slow icon refresh" behavior?

Thanks.
Click to expand...

Try #121 on the left: "Increase Icon Cache" at

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
 
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