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Thread ID: 29767 2003-02-02 00:50:00 Extremely slow opening of Pic folders Callum (1536) Press F1
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117718 2003-02-02 00:50:00 Using XP, AZ11ea board, 1Ghz Athlon, 512 Ram. Ge Force 2 Graphics card 64Mb. 20Gb WD HD.

Opening a pic folder for the first time from a new start can take maybe a minute to come up in thumbnails, however on the odd occasion the same folder will open in less than a sec.
I've had 3 clean installs, changed the main board and the HD to no avail, makes no difference to the opening time, mostly very slow and the odd fast opening.
Prior to XP ME worked fine except for the odd crash.

Has anyone come across this problem, I'd be delighted to hear the fix.

Regards
Malcolm
Callum (1536)
117719 2003-02-02 01:33:00 > Using XP, AZ11ea board, 1Ghz Athlon, 512 Ram. Ge
> Force 2 Graphics card 64Mb. 20Gb WD HD.
>
> Opening a pic folder for the first time from a new
> w start can take maybe a minute to come up in
> thumbnails, however on the odd occasion the same
> folder will open in less than a sec.
> I've had 3 clean installs, changed the main board
> and the HD to no avail, makes no difference to the
> opening time, mostly very slow and the odd fast
> opening.
> Prior to XP ME worked fine except for the odd
> crash.
>
> Has anyone come across this problem, I'd be delighted
> to hear the fix.
>
> Regards
> Malcolm

That is sort of normal.
Iam running win Me and that happends a lot to me as well!

How may images to you have in that pic folder?
stu140103 (137)
117720 2003-02-02 01:35:00 what ver of IE do you both have ? tweak'e (174)
117721 2003-02-02 01:44:00 > what ver of IE do you both have ?

IE 5.5 & IE 6.0 on the 2nd computer this happends two
stu140103 (137)
117722 2003-02-02 01:49:00 >Opening a pic folder for the first time from a new start can take maybe a minute to come up in thumbnails

how many pics? with a lot of pics it will take a while for the pc to scan through and generate thumbnails for every pic, unless the thunbnails are in cache which is why it loads quick now and then. peronally i don't like the thumbnaol veiw. i have it set so you haveto click the pic before the thumbnail appears.
tweak'e (174)
117723 2003-02-03 04:08:00 Using ie6 Callum (1536)
117724 2003-02-03 04:11:00 The size of folder does not seem to make any difference, for instance one with 10 or so, maybe 5/6 Mb, takes 10secs and one with 20/30 about the same time .
Malcolm
Callum (1536)
117725 2003-02-03 04:15:00 Yes always thumbnails , however, using the same machine running ME and the same files everything opened in a flash, - as does everything else in XP. Using Adobe Photoshop elements all the editing works fine .

A fine pickle YES?
Malcolm
Callum (1536)
117726 2003-02-07 08:01:00 Hi Stu.
Im sure its not normal, i had ME to start with and i remember feeling chuffed at the speed with which the folder opened all in thumbnails and containing about 80 pics and 90MB worth and even now with XP it sometimes opens in less than a sec but mostly a minute or two
Regards
Malcolm
Callum (1536)
117727 2003-02-07 22:49:00 make sure you are using the latest XP graphics drivers kiwibeat (304)
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