Hi,

The green bar is often caused by Vista loading and preparing thumbnails. It can also be caused by slow network connection. You can take care of the first issue by changing the following setting:

Explorer
-> Tools
-> Folder Options
-> View
-> Always show icons, never thumbnails

This will tell the computer to open your folders with icons for each file instead of thumbnails which is the problem that causes the slowness.

Note, if your Exporer crashes (oh, didn't they come up with new Windows that is supposed to be reliable?!!), you won't be able to open another instance of it untill you kill the explorer process. So, it is a good idea to run every Explorer in its own process, you might want to set the following.

Explorer
-> Tools
-> Folder Options
-> View
-> Launch folder windows in a separate process

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