Continued - Windows Explorer is slow reading directories

Would appreciate any tips or suggestion on where to start tracking
this down.

Thanks.
Petre.

Hi Petre,

A coupld of years back I had the same problem when opening Windows Explorer.
As it turns out my particular problem was having too many subfolders under
C:\My Documents (which has been discussed in this thread already). Once I
re-structured my folders as to have a limit of 75 subfolders in C:\My
Documents the problem was solved. I understand that your problem is with
your "D" drive and you have 0 subfolders under C:\My Documents but the
reason I bring this up is about year later I was having the same problem --
Windows Explorer was extremely slow.

At the time the only 'fix' I knew of was defragging and to keep a limit of
100 subfolders under C:\My Documents only this was happening when viewing
another partition where I now had many of my files/folders.

It was set up similar to your C:\, D:\, and E:\ partitions. Since most of
my files where now on D:\ I took a look and found it somthing like this.:

D:\My Documents\ -- 75 subfolders
D:\My HTML\ -- 425 sublfolders
D:\My Images\ -- 225 subfolders
D:\My PDF\ -- 150 subfolders

Since defragging/rebooting didn't cure the problem and the only other known
remedy was to keep the subfolders below 100 (in C:\My Documents) I
re-organized the entire drive (8Gb) so the most subfolders any folder off of
D: would have was 75

Once done organizing the folders I defragged again the rebooted. For me the
problem was solved. Explorer never slowed down for me again. I can't quite
explain the whys but for me it took care of a very slow Explorer and it
might be worth trying on your PC.

Also a link below to check out.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...t2/wrkc10.mspx

Hope this helps, John ;-)