Slow folder reaction

[lynchknot]

6) I increase the icon cache, On XP the Max Cached Icons is set too low for some of us...if your icons ooz into view, try this;

to changed this got to regedit,HKEY_LOCAL_
MACHINE-Software-Microsoft-Windows-currentversion-Explorer

in the right window, double click max cached icons, type the value 8192.
If you don't have this, open up your registry and make your way here:-
HKEY_LOCAL_
MACHINE / Software / Microsoft / Windows /currentversion / Explorer
in the right side, right-click a blank area and choose "New" "String Value" and call it
Max Cached Icons
Double-click this new Key and type the value
8192
into the box
P.S.
If you want to try the DWORD version, follow the above but instead of making a new String Value, you should make a "New" "DWORD Value" and call it
MaxCachedIcons
and give it a Value of
2000 in Hexadecimal, or
8192 in Decimal.
then reboot you should see a big speed boost icon load, and opening folders.

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[gargoyle149]

i had something similiar to this, hopefully this will do the trick for you, not sure why it did it though,

i found that moving the data out of the original folder into another folder cured the problem, it was something to do with the indexing i think.

another instance was 1 corrupt folder slowing the draw rate down. move the folders around until you find the bad one. move the data out, delete the folder, re-create it and put the data back