Comments on: Vista File Operations Slow: Green bar in Windows Explorer

By: Walter Ego

Walter Ego — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:12:54 +0000

To keep thumbnails ,uncheck thumbnails when performing “disk cleanup”

By: Tricia

Tricia — Sat, 22 May 2010 19:46:07 +0000

Good discussion. I find that if I click on small icons instead of other options, then I can still get my jpeg thumbnails (and psd) without having the progress bar take forever just to display the folder icons for one particular folder that has 5000 subfolders. The folder with the jpegs is a different one, so as long as it remembers my settings from one folder to another, I’m good to go. (Now if it would just remember all of the time…)

By: JS

JS — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:36:07 +0000

Hmm. I still want thumbnails for JPEG files. XP manages to do this without slowing the machine down to a crawl…

By: Johnny

Johnny — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:38:06 +0000

Hi!

Thank goodness. Was driving me crazy. Thanks for the info.

-Johnny

By: pgn674

pgn674 — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:57:39 +0000

I’ve also found that, especially on slow media like CD’s, and in folders with many files, or hard to compute files like movies, calculating what to put into the columns in the details view can take a long time. So, if you have one particularly troublesome folder, right click on the column headings, click More…, and deselect everything. Or, choosing another view might help. Make sure “Remember each folder’s view settings” is set.