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Any way to speed up Win Explorer?
Name: zalwa walez Date: December 6, 2002 at 07:40:37 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: P-4-2,4GHz
Comment:
I have a Pentium 2.4GHz with IBM 60Gb, 7200rpm hard drive. Why is it so terribly slow to browse in Win Explorer? It can sometimes take seconds to open a folder. I have a lot of files (of course, big HD, many files) but that shouldn't any reason! Is there any way to speed up browsing in Win Explorer?. Thanks
Name: Eric Date: December 6, 2002 at 07:51:36 Pacific
Reply:
1. How much memory do you have? 2. Are you formatted with NTFS or Fat32? 3. Have you defragged your drive?
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Response Number 2
Name: Peter Date: December 6, 2002 at 07:59:00 Pacific
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Also you might want to partition the drive that might help and if you are using XP you might to check the box under windows explorer C drive properties then check allow indexing of disk to speed up the disk.
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Response Number 3
Name: Dick Johnson Date: December 6, 2002 at 08:34:35 Pacific
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Also try PowerQuest "Power Desk 5.0". It's windows explorer on steroids!
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Response Number 4
Name: Kurt Date: December 6, 2002 at 09:41:53 Pacific
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Agree with Dick about the Power Desk program. However, it's from VCOM (used to be from Ontrack), not PowerQuest.
http://www.v-com.com/product/pd_ind.html
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Response Number 5
Name: joe Date: December 13, 2002 at 09:16:19 Pacific
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The best way I have found is to set explorer to list instead of details; and also to uncheck the option to view NTFS encrypted files in Explorer:Tools>Folder Options>View>Show Compressed or Encrypted NTFS files in color (uncheck). Hope that helps.
Summary: Useful to check you don't have too much "stuf" running in the background. Regardless, the cheapest/kwikest/easiest way to speed up a give system is to add more RAM... However you appear to have 1Gig ...
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