Cpl Ledanek Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 so I just got back from vacation with 16GB of pictures and every time I look for a picture, my thumbnails loads very slowly (approx 1 min). is there anything I can adjust to my memory to load faster? specs on sig advance thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombat50 Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 I have had this in the past. I tried today on My Pictures folder and it seemed fairly speedy loading thumbnails. Maybe the reason is I defragged yesterday. I don't really know if that would help or not. How many subfolders have you broken the 16 gigs up into? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted October 12, 2009 Author Share Posted October 12, 2009 16GB= 4 major folders ; each contain 3 subfolders from two different cameras (Canon & Nikon) I'm haven't defrag for 2 months now, so I'll give it a go tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted November 29, 2009 Author Share Posted November 29, 2009 mucked around my BIOS: Good: Thumbnails now loads uber-fast Bad: It also cleared all my recent programs....FF3 bookmarks...forgot create a restore point Good: Got tons more space on my HD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 How does a BIOS tweak lose apps and create diskspace? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted November 29, 2009 Author Share Posted November 29, 2009 How does a BIOS tweak lose apps and create diskspace? dunno but it did....waiting for my MS update then I'll go tinkering in there again...cheaper Sunday than buying MW2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 now this is strange i have one physical HD, formatted to C: for WinXP, and D for my Programs/Apps/Downloads. so now they got switched around! I didn't get a bigger HD, they just got switch around the BIOS will do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 TRAUMA FIXED!!! It was definitely a case of senility :angst: I was two physical HD....not one HD partitioned into two. It was Western Digital and a Samsung Spinpoint....I initially thought the Samsung was a DVD-ROM until I saw my Asus DVD-ROM So it was a case of Boot Priority. Now I'm happily back to my slow thumbnail preview :confused: so glad everything is sorted out....just in time for Matlock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gache Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 'Scuse asking the obvious... but have you tried forcing WinXP to regenerate the thumbnails file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 'Scuse asking the obvious... but have you tried forcing WinXP to regenerate the thumbnails file? please show me how please is this how? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gache Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 (edited) is this how? I think that link relates to caching the thumbnails in memory after viewing a folder - the idea being to load them quicker if you go back to that folder later in your session. It could cause excessive memory use with very large folders, if XP is being dumb about memory handling, so it may be worth a try... but it's not what I'd try first. What I meant was, just delete the hidden 'thumbs.db' file where WinXP (and Win7... but not Vista ) stores the thumbnails it's created. These can get corrupted and Windows doesn't always fix them automatically. All you have to do is go into a folders where thumbnails are slow and delete that thumbs.db file. Next time you go in there, you should see a slow load (can be a really slow load with lots of pics) as Windows regenerates the thumbnails; but on subsequent visits they should load much faster. Of course it could be something completely different, in which case that won't help at all... but it's one of those 'check it first to rule it out' things - Gache P.S. +1 for defragging, too, if you haven't in a while... the disk i/o on 16GB of pics (or a correspondingly huge thumbs.db) could be a killer even on a very fast system if the HDD's very fragmented. Edited November 30, 2009 by Gache Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 thank you, will try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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