Long pause when opening a certain folder...

usp8riot

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• Mar 12, 2006

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It is a folder that I keep on my desktop with shortcuts to all my games. It's about 25 shortcuts, nothing big. I don't see why my system couldn't handle a folder with that many shortcuts. Apparently it doesn't seem to take up much cpu resources, as I look in taskmanager and cpu % is unchanged. But the hard drive light stays on a lot of the time when accessing. Anyone else had this problem?

 

tenchi86

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• Mar 12, 2006

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My computer also takes a sec to load certian folders depending on stuff like if it has a crap load of photos. May try doing a defrag with a good app like perfect disk or O&O. It could also be Windows trying to trace were all those shortcuts go to to save load time later on. Though as far as I know Windows does not do that.

 

Last edited: Mar 12, 2006

Xtreme Barton

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tenchi86 said:

I kind of do if the folder has man pcitures .......

Click to expand...

please tell me your a girl !!


and yes i would run a defrag on the drive

 

Know Nuttin

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• Mar 12, 2006

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If you have an invalid file/shortcut, it could be causing the issue.

Try recreating the shortcuts. That should solve it.

 

redduc900

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• Mar 12, 2006

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Without knowing which OS you're running, I'll assume it's either XP or W2K. Open Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder Options | 'View' tab | Scroll down to and uncheck 'Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)' | Open the folder you're having problems with, and make note of what other files (including the size of each) is contained within.

 

TheProf

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Also sometimes the antivirus might be scanning that folder everytime you open it, I know mine does that sometimes.

 

tenchi86

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Sorry fixed my post, meant to say many.

 

Xtreme Barton

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^^

lol ... i know, i was giving you a hard time .. hehehehehe