Memory Problem?

[adl888]

I have a Pentium 4 with (3) 256MB PC2100 and everytime I click on a folder that contain digital pictures, the thumbnails appear very slowly (2 to 3 minutes typical) before the entire folder appear. Also, refreshing is slow when I scroll down using the scroll bar. Will a 1GB PC2700 resolve this problem?

Thanks,

 

[MadModMike]

How fast is your P4, what size and speed HDD, and how much filled up is the HDD?

~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time

 

[adl888]

Pentinum 4 CPU 2.53GHZ & 49 GB Hard Drive free (available).

 

[hashv2f16]

slow hard drive? upgrading to 1gb pc2700 should help a little.

 

[himji]

YOu prolem doesn't sound hardware related. No way should it take that long to display a bunch of thumbnails. It sound Windows related to me. but then it could be anything when windows is concerned, have you just built your machine or have you had it (and your current os build) for some time now?

 

[apache_lives]

I have a Pentium 4 with (3) 256MB PC2100 and everytime I click on a folder that contain digital pictures, the thumbnails appear very slowly (2 to 3 minutes typical) before the entire folder appear. Also, refreshing is slow when I scroll down using the scroll bar. Will a 1GB PC2700 resolve this problem?

Thanks,

If your reading images from a cd it also slows down - whens the last time you did a disk cleanup and defrag? and your cpu (P4 2.53ghz) prefers DDR333/PC2700 rather then slower PC2100/DDR266 - depending on board tho.

 

[MadModMike]

I don't know why everybody blames disk fragmentation for slow performance. I never see disk fragmentation, in real world tests, cause performance losses. A laptop of mine, w/ a 4200RPM 20GB drive and a 1.4GHz Pentium M w/ 512MB RAM that is fragmented to all hell, still manages 20MB/s Drive Index w/ and w/o fragmentation, as well as a 120GB that is fragmented almost 37%. Though, as it is known, testing a drive, such as a 160GB w/ 20GB free, drops the Drive Index from 51MB/s to 18MB/s, very horrendous.

~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time

 

[FlyGuy]

Sounds like Windows to me too, shocker! I have a ton of pics and if I have all folders set to thumbnail view it slows noticebly the longer I go between reinstalls but like between 3-10 seconds longer, not minutes.

Maybe thumbnail caching? Windows views thumbnails as tiny bitmap images so if a folder contains a lot of images it can make a difference. Also if all the files are named the same, like Car01, Car02, Car03, etc. that can slow it down as well.

 

[Tattysnuc]

Try turning off the windows indexing service.

There are loads of tweaks to speed up your pc. Head over to www.tweaktown .com and see if there's anything specific that you can speed up.