Windows browser slow at loading up folder contents for some folders

iTree

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The issue is the file browser when going into a folder will have the address bar loading the folder as, a portion of the folder displays instantly but freezes till it loads the rest, what i find odd is this happens differently across my system/drives, a folder that is worse is my fraps screenshot folder, no matter the view setting the folder has will start have load problems around 150-200 items and it'll become bad around 450 images taking upto 30+ seconds to load, my downloads folder also does about same, but some folders aren't as affected as my documents folder with over 350 right now loads instantly and pictures folder with 400 loads pretty snappy with some gradual loading,, my 2nd 3rd drive for the most part seem unaffected, the fraps folder in my 1TB HDD where i copy images over has a folder with over 10,000 what loads instantly same files that are taking my SSD 30sec+ to load every time enter the folder

I'm running windows 7 ul x64 With a Crucial M4 with updated firmware and settings from a optimization thread i found, 2nd drive is 1TB Hitachi HDD
 
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Perhaps you could try changing folder options to "general' items. I used to have this problem but only with my downloads folder. In the folder options mine was apparently set to "Pictures" which would cause everything to load slowly. You could also try to enable drive indexing to help load the files faster. It takes some virtual memory but might speed up your explorer access.

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Perhaps you could try changing folder options to "general' items. I used to have this problem but only with my downloads folder. In the folder options mine was apparently set to "Pictures" which would cause everything to load slowly. You could also try to enable drive indexing to help load the files faster. It takes some virtual memory but might speed up your explorer access.
 
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thanks, i tested this out, setting it to general items does seem speed it up significantly and remove remove the freezing, still not sure why it seems be segregated issue, but if it works it works : )