Slow file Explorer for .jpg only

Hello Michel,

| Displaying the folders that contain .JPG is very slow...

| The file listing itself is very fast (listing mode),
| but every single photoshop icon needs...

Are you saying that in Windows Explorer, in File-List mode, the icon
to the left of each filename.JPG is rendered as the actual .JPG itself,
or is rendered as a high-resolution icon from the Photoshop application,
or does any of the above occur while displaying the folders that contain
..JPG files whilst using the Photoshop application?

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Jan

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"Michel" <galloism@hotmail.com> wrote:

| Hi,
| I am facing the following problem with a fresh installed XP :
|
| Displaying the folders that contain .JPG is very slow with my 2.4 Ghz cpu at
| 100%.

| The file listing itself is very fast (listing mode), but every single
| photoshop icon needs almost 1 second to display. During that time, it's very
| difficult to take control. Imagine how it works when I have 1000 of them in
| a folder.

| Note that if I change the file association for the.jpg files, not only it
| does not fix the problem, but, while the explorer launches the right program
| (say Irfanview), it still displays (slowly) the Photoshop icon in the
| listing.

| I made also the registry change to have 2K icons cached, without success.
| I played with the "tools_options_display" setting as well : no thumbnails.
| same result.

| I understand that Windows handles the .JPG files in a special way : it
| displays the "exif" information (size, camera,..) in the status bar. Is that
| the reason ?

| How tell it not to act like that for .JPG files ?
|
| Thanks for your help,
|
| Michel.