Explore BOGS DOWN scrolling or opening folders

[valhalla3]

There was a thread about this last year but I didn't think anyone would see a post to that now so I'm opening a new one.

I have some very large folders with sub folders. Some folders might have over a gigabyte of files. These same sized files in 98 worked without a problem but in XP just opening the parent folder that has only sub folders and no direct files can take a minute or longer to open. Also just to scroll down on the left side of Explore to get another folder in view can cause Explore to stop and you can hear the hard drive chugging away. Then finally after as long as a minute it moves and finishes the scroll. Most of this behavior happens when you first open everything up. Then it appears that as long as you don't add or delete any files everything works normally. But as soon as you start adding or deleting files at some point you get the bogging down when scrolling etc.

Sometimes XP will even lock up and you have to use Task Manager to shut it down. Also the Recycle bin will freeze for long periods of time even as long as 5 minutes and has to be shut down via task manager.

I tried the suggestions in the old thread but it did not help. This is the one I tried:

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}

Find this key:
InProcServer32
and delete it.

. Start, Run, regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
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The idea here was that avi files were causing problems for XP. The fact that my problem occurs after adding and deleting files with the hard drive going nuts when this happens seems like XP is trying to do some ridiculous, Microsoft control freak type of processing. That's crazy that it would key off of scrolling to start any kind of file processing. I have all the indexing (that I know of) turned off but that's what it seems like it is trying to do.

Any ideas besides getting an Apple system? D)

 

[chipk]

Have you tried running Perfomance Monitor to see what kind of performance you might be getting from different objects? If you suspect disk problems (because you hear the disk thrashing) you probably need to focus on disk performance. Try these counters:

PhysicalDisk/LogicalDisk: %DiskTime, close to 100% is a problem.
PhysicalDisk/LogicalDisk: Disk Queue Length, threshold 2

And have you done the MS cure-all of defragging the hard drive yet?

 

[valhalla3]

Well the hard drive isn't really thrashing. If I access the same folders from another program via their dialog box for file/folder access I don't see the same thing. It seems to be only with Explore or programs that use explore to access files and folders. It seems that Explore is trying to force some sort of processing everytime a squirrel farts in the woods....D) Scrolling down to just view a different folder without even opening it should not invoke massive time consuming processing. I'm wondering if XP/Explore has yet another bug that causes it to index everything regardless of the setting telling it not to.