It didn't work. Plus, SE wouldn't rebuild my ShellIconCache file after I
deleted it. I reduced "Max Cached Icons" to 1.5K or 1536 and it did
rebuild it. Apparently, 2000 was too high a figure. I'm going to install
VIA 4-in-1 driver version 4.43 tomorrow. Since it's dated 7/30/2002, I
think it's a better choice than 4.37 which is dated 12/5/2001. It still
doesn't explain why FE is so much faster in Explorer and why FE boots
faster. I can't understand why I am having this problem. M$ should be
able to handle a simple upgrade from FE to SE. There's hardly any
difference between these two O/S's. If I find any answers, I'll post it
here for others should they have the same problem.


Anonymous wrote:
MM,
yes, I did that some time ago. I have copied and pasted the procedure
below for anyone who is interested. I set my "Max Cached Icons" to the
maximum years ago, which is supposed to be 2000. I will delete my
ShellIconCache file and see what happens. Since I did upgrade from FE
to SE, maybe there was some kind of corruption. If this isn't the
solution, it'll probably be some time before I track down the problem.
I can't believe SE is so much slower in Explorer and booting than FE. I
might even need to call Microsoft and pay $50 for their support but
let's hope it doesn't come to this.


From "Tweaking your Windows Registry"
http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/registry/print.shtml
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Icon cache

Windows stores Icons it displays in a cache file called ShellIconCache.
This allows icons to appear quickly, as Windows doesn’t have to load the
icons from programs that contain them. However, by default the cache
holds 512 icons. Once the cache is full Windows it gets destroyed &
begins again. When this happens desktop activity slows to a crawl & the
desktop will most likely redraw. Increasing the Icon Cache size will
decrease the amount of times this may happen in a session.

Open this key
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer].
Add a New string value entitled Max Cached Icons. The default value is
512. You should increase this value. I’d recommend doubling it to 1024.
The maximum value for this is 2000 & minimum is 100 according to Microsoft.
===========================================


Mostly Me (MM) wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Hello,
Although I fixed the long pause problem while using Properties in
Explorer on large files, I have noticed another small problem after
upgrading from FE to SE. While using SE Explorer, inside ANY lowest
hierarchical subfolder (deepest) and I click the minus (-) sign of
the folder directly above each subfolder, Explorer pauses for a
second before moving to the next higher folder above it. I am aware
of the 9x slow "My Documents" folder and I do not use them. This
occurs in ANY folder on ANY drive.



Hi,

This isn't exactly what you are describing, but, on several 98SE boxes
I noticed it was a little slow to display the contents of the folder,
some very brief pauses while the icons were being displayed.

The short of it is, I had to add a registry entry for MaxIcons or
something like that, and delete the ShellIconCache file(which forced
Windows to rebuild it). A noticeable improvement on every machine I
did it to.

If you're interested, I'll dig up the procedure tomorrow morning and
post it. A little tired right now, way past my bedtime.

Maybe PCR has it available as a master post...

MM