Re: Windows Explorer takes forever to show folder contents

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Thank you for that information. The problem, though, may not always be
with the number of files; for example, I have a folder with just 10
Word files, with sizes ranging from 3 MB to 14 MB.
The file chooser in Word, for example, takes forever to show me the
contents of that folder.


Tim Slattery wrote:
"Kunal" <akunal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Unfortunately I don't have that option. I would assume that Windows has
some kind of [registry] setting that would let the "read" be turned off
or on.

What information from the files are you having Windows Explorer
display? You can use View|Choose Details... in WE to tell it not to
display items that it needs to open the file to get.

NTFS directories are stored in a btree format. That means that for
directories with lots and lots of files and subdirs, it will take a
fairly long time to read out the entire list. Searching for a
particular file, however, will be pretty quick.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@xxxxxxx

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