{"id":24,"date":"2009-01-30T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joesuttle.com\/techblog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2009-01-30T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T13:50:00","slug":"windows-explorer-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/techblog\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Windows Explorer Slow?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Was getting this 40-90 second delay in showing the contents of some folders when I clicked on them. Answer turns out to be an easy fix, but hard to get information from Microsoft.<\/p>\n

The major reason for the slowdown is how Windows Explorer treats zip files. WE wants to treat each zip file as a folder, so it spends time reading through each root folder in that directory to find out how many files or folders are in that folder. With the zip file being in the directory you have clicked on, WE is slowed to a drag looking through each compressed file to get the names of every file in that folder<\/p>\n

There are three things to do to resolve the issue, and I did items 1 and 2 but the real fix or speed up came with number 2.<\/p>\n

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  1. In Control Panel\/Folder Options\/View, set or check "Do Not Cache Thumbnails"<\/li>\n
  2. Move all zip files in the offending folder into a separate folder<\/li>\n
  3. In a Command Window, type regsvr32 \/u zipfldr.dll<\/strong> This will "unload" the dll that treats zip files as folders system-wide<\/em><\/strong>, not just in the directory where you may think you are having the problem<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Was getting this 40-90 second delay in showing the contents of some folders when I clicked on them. Answer turns out to be an easy fix, but hard to get information from Microsoft. The major reason for the slowdown is … Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/techblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/techblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/techblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/techblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/techblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/techblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/techblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/techblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/techblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}