Help! My Windows Explorer has bogged down very badly, and it can take 15-20 seconds or longer to pull up new folders or to create a NEW FOLDER. I have lots of files on my hard drive.... is there a Registry key that needs to be expanded? I've scanned the drive for errors and found none. TIA!!!

Have you checked your resources? Right click on My Computer, then Properties, then Performance This link has some good info on Resource Management http://www2.whidbey.net/djdenham/ If you find you need to remove itecm from Startup to improve your resources Tom posted this link that will help http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm

have you defragged lately?

I'm looking for a solution to that very problem. I've got thousands of files and subdirectories on a drive and when I click into the main folder it takes forever for the listing to come up. However, if you map that drive as a shared resource and go into the folder that way it pops right up. What's happening is windows explorer is caching all of the information to render the display or something for all the files in the directory and any sub folders. When you do it for a share it doesn't go through the same process. I'm trying to find a way to turn it off in windows explorer so that it works the same way it does with a mapped disk resource. Any help is greatly appreciated. James Johnston

I have tried all possible cleaning solutions. Nothing really works if you have many folders and files in one root folder. I discovered "Powerdesk". It can replace Windows explorer, works very similar, has lots of features and is 10 times faster. Look at http://www.ontrack.com/ and your problem is solved. Besides, the basic very complete version is free.