There are several ways to speed up Bridge. Check out the Adobe User-to-User forums for suggestions, tips, upgrades, and the like. There are people there who are working with many more files than a "couple hundred." Perhaps you'll find a way to speed things up.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Thibouille > Maybe you haven't a couple hundred PEF files on the folder used by > default by Bridge? > I do (yeah I'm very ordonated kind of person lol) and sometimes it is > sloooooow :) > > On 4/11/06, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > It seems to load pretty fast for me - it's certainly acceptable