Re: Scrolling through large folders hangs up & is jerky

Mark, thanks for your suggestions. I, too, believe it's a RAM problem
of some type. Below are my responses to your suggestions:

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:51:01 -0700, Callmark1
<Callmark1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Slow Scroller:

It really does sound like a RAM problem but it is hard to imagine 2GB RAM
being easily overwhelmed. I would try things in this order to get started
discovering the problem:

Try turning off the programs you recently installed (while you are not
connected to internet of course) and see if the scrolling is still slow on
these files. Report back.

How can these programs (McAfee, Nero, Audition, etc.) be turned off,
without actually deinstalling them?

A defrag might help too and is easy & safe to perform: Start > All Programs
Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter. Perform the Analyze
function first and make a note of the reported results. Then do the defrag.
If you have not defragmented in a while, this could take some time and you
might consider performing the defrag twice.

I have defragged, and it does not affect the problem.

Also, make a note of your Virtual Memory parameters: Start > Control Panel
System > Click the Advanced tab > Click Settings (to the right of
Performance) > Click the Advanced tab in Performance Options > Click "Change"
to the right of Virtual Memory (don't worry, it won't change anything unless
you ask it to). Make a note of the settings and report back here.

Performance Options/Virtual Memory:
Total paging file size for all drives: 2046 MB
Virtual Memory: Lists drives C, D, G, H, I - Paging File Size (MB)
listed beside "C:" is 2046 - 4092. The other drives have do not
specify any Paging File Size.

Drive: C:
Space available: 58519 MB
Custom size (ENABLED):
Initial size (MB): 2046
Maximum size (MB): 4092
System managed size (NOT enabled)
No paging file (NOT enabled)

Total paging file size for all drives:
Minimum allowed: 2 MB
Recommended: 3069 MB
Currently allocated: 2046 MB

PS: just HOW BIG are these files?

The files themselves are not that large - they're mostly mp3's,
between 3 MB and 5 MB. Some folders contain approximately 8000 mp3's.
One hard drive (I: = 500 GB hd) contains 36,000 mp3's. However, I
emphasize that I've had about this many files for over a year, and
until the last few days never had any scrolling problem at all.

The problem seems to have begun before the installation of Adobe
Audition 2, but may have begun a few days earlier, around the time
that McAfee was upgraded for another years' subscription (and
installed from a retail-purchased CD) and Nero was installed, along
with various a/v codecs.

Could the prob be as simple as the newly-installed programs have
increased overnight the need for a larger paging file size than the
currently allocated 2046 MB?


"SlowScrolling" wrote:

In the last few days I have had trouble scrolling through large file
folders on my various hard drives. As you drag the slider the file
list scrolling stalls and then a few seconds later catches up all at
once. This problem is not limited to one hard drive, but occurs
similarly on all my hard drives in folders that contain many files.

My system is a powerful Dell Dimension 8400, XP Pro, 3.4 GHz, 2 GB
RAM, with fast Western Digital hard drives, and never had even a hint
of this problem until a few days ago. However, the number of files in
my various folders has not increased significantly, and they were
scrolling fine a week ago; now they are not. During this time, I've
installed some new programs, including Nero 7 Ultra, Adobe Audition
2.0, some a/v codecs, plus McAfee Internet Security Suite 2006 (had
already been running McAfee, which came on my computer, for a year).

This is not a smooth-scrolling problem. Smooth-scrolling has always
been enabled on my system without any problem, and I have tried
disabling it, and it did not help. Also, I use AdAware SE Personal at
least once a day. Defragging also doesn't help.

All suggestions will be greatly appreciated.


.

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