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Slow Display of Thumnails
Name: nathanbewdley Date: March 14, 2005 at 04:51:14 Pacific OS: XP HOME CPU/Ram: P4 3.2 1GB RAM
Comment:
When opening windows containing photos, my computer has become very slow at displaying the thumnails, sometimes taking several minutes to display them. I've tried having less pics in a folder but it makes hardly any difference. The cpu usage is not high and there seems to be no unwanted applications running. If anyone has any ideas I would be most gratefull.
Name: Avengerman96 Date: March 14, 2005 at 05:34:03 Pacific
Reply:
You might try deleting everything in your C:\Windows\Prefetch folder (edit/select all/delete). Could possibly make the thumbnails show-up a little faster.
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Response Number 2
Name: Lesley Date: March 14, 2005 at 05:38:37 Pacific
Reply:
NathanBewdley
Go to Control Panel - Folder Options - View - 'Do not Cache Thumbnails'
If that has a Check then Uncheck it
Lesley
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Response Number 3
Name: nathanbewdley Date: March 14, 2005 at 05:48:06 Pacific
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Thanks for suggestions, have tried both of these but still slow. Would a defrag help?
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Response Number 4
Name: User Date: March 14, 2005 at 08:41:23 Pacific
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I've found that this can happen with images of a large resolution. I've got no problems on my PC, and yet hi-res images can still take a while to show up on a thumbnails. Try some small .gifs and see if they still take ages to display thumbnails.
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