I have a few folders with video's, and some of them are really slow to display the contents of the folder.
This is a new setup of vista business 64 with SP1, I had a similar setup of vista 64 before (on the same computer) and never had this problem.
I switched drives for another brand (samsungs to seagates), but according to performance tests they should be just as fast or even faster.
I already tried options->use icons, never thumbnails but that made no difference.
Also tried other options on/off, but no difference.
I have readyboost and windows search turned off, turned off mcafee, tried other view settings, it all makes no difference.

Has anyone have any more ideas ?

specs please

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intel q6600 3,3Ghz
4 Gb mem
2,5 TB raid 5

Not that it should matter, a previous setup on this pc didn't have this problem.
Also some folders with the same amount of video's also show instant.

The reason why it takes a long time is because vista is loading it into the RAM, perhaps turning off 'superfetch ' may help but I doubt it. I use large DVD's to store files and at times it can be frustratingly slow at opening the disk as once again all the files are being loaded into the RAM... You could also try opening device manager, look under disk drives and right click the set up found there. Choose properties and then policies. Near the bottom of the revealed box is another way to increase disk performance so try ticking that.

You could try more RAM....lol

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That wouldn't explain why some folders with the same amount of files load instant and others are slow, and why in a previous setup it was always fast.
Besides, disabling superfetch didn't help either.
I would understand if files would be slow on DVD's because that also depends on the speed of the dvd drive.
But my harddisks perform very well, but even if it was the harddisks, then why would some folders be fast ?
And the performance properties of harddisks are not used when you have a raid setup.
And lets be honoust, more ram wouldn't help either, it only uses up to 25% at this point.

Yup your right of course I forgot it worked in an earlier set-up... oh and I was only joking about the RAM.. Have you tried googling the problem??

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yep, but I can only find the basic solutions like the explorer options and turning of services (and more ram ). And they don't help.