Yes, drawing thumbnails can take a while the first time for large pics. After that they should be cached and instant.
If you're going to work with folders full of hundreds of large photos, you need lots of RAM too. Bring up your task manager (ctrl-alt-del) and look at the performance tab. Does it always show lots of Physical Memory available? > What's slow is "painting" the thumbnails of a few hundred photos (1.5-3 Mb > apiece) located in a folder on the hard drive. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
