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by barth.travis 1 view

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XP SP2 with all updates. This happened to me about a year ago as well but I don't remember how I resolved it.

When I open an image file that resides on the desktop, there is a 30 second delay in it's opening. This is with ACDSee, or MS Picture Viewer. Paint opens them right away.

Once the image is open, I can go to other images via the application by hitting Page Down or whatever, no problem.

Images in any other location, including folders on the desktop, open just fine.

I do not think it's related to a specific viewer. I think it's a more general problem.

Also, there is no CPU activity spike during this delay, nor any extra disk activity.

Ideas?

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by oh smeg

If you have a few you may have exceeded XP's 8 Bit Register and this is causing the problem.

Cure is to remove unnecessary Icons from the desktop and look for these items in the folders.

Col

by barth.travis

Hi there, I just have a few. Most of the time my desktop has absolutely none.

Only image files are a problem, but Paint opens them at normal speed.

BTW, regarding your "Oh Smeg" sig: I kid you not, this computer's name is "Lister". As in, David Lister.

-Travis

by oh smeg

Run a Virus Scan followed by a Mal Ware Scan over the system in [b]Safe Mode.[/b]

I use Ad Aware

http://tinyurl.com/du0h

and Spy Bot S&D

http://tinyurl.com/yrwy2

for Domestic applications as both are free and work but depending on your AV Product tone or both of these may not be an option.

Run Defrag Several Times on the HDD's of the System and then load Crap Cleaner or as it's sometimes called CCleaner and scan the Registry.

http://tinyurl.com/rc2fn

Lets know how you get on

Col

by barth.travis

Thanks for the quick replies!

This system is very tight and clean:

- Up to date on all MS patches
- NOD32 w/ all advanced options active + hourly updates & weekly full scans
- Eset firewall
- Webroot Spysweeper with daily updates and weekly full scans, including rootkit scan
- Diskeeper 2008 w/auto defrag
- Weekly Hijack This! scans.
- I know all 31 active processes by name. :-)
- All Internet connectivity is through an IPCop firewall with CopFilter running the latest version of Clam AV as well.

Again, this happened to me once before, the same thing: Only image files opened from the desktop. The heck if I can remember how I fixed it last time. :-| (Different computer, same OS)

Keep the ideas coming!

-Travis

by thumbsup2

turn off scanning of picture type files in NOD32 the last time that you fixed the problem? Not that I recommend doing this, but it's possible the files are being scanned every time they're accessed.

by barth.travis

However, I have not done that.

Again, only image files that reside on the desktop produce this problem. If I move them to any other location, including into a folder on the desktop, the problem goes away.

-Travis

by barth.travis

I was thinking that maybe I had something corrupt on my Desktop. The biggest clue to all of this is that it only happens when opening images from that folder.

There isn't much on my desktop, but I decided to delete the network shortcuts that are for resources at work on the domain. (The machine has been home for a while.)

That did it. Now images open up quickly.

So the odd things are:

1. Why? I have 'Automatically look for network bla bla bla' unchecked in folder options.

2. Why only image files?

Oh well, at least I figured it out. Maybe I'll actually remember the fix when it happens again in a few months.

-Travis

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