My beef with Windows 7 Home Edition

[General Mortars]

Hey, guys,

wonder if you could help me out here, I´ve bought a new machine a couple months back and I go through an annoyance every time I open a folder.
Despite its 12 gig RAM, Windows 7 takes a couple seconds, sometimes almost half a minute to display the thumbnails inside.

Meanwhile my decrepit 4 years old backup computer running on WindosXP with 3 meager gigs of RAM does it instantaneously.

I open a folder and, BAM!, every file thumbnail is there in all their glory for me to see, even in folders I haven´t visited not in months but sometimes years.

Has anyone ran into this problem and is there a way to fix this?

Thanks for reading this.

[Almost Human]

By default Windows 7's disc cleanup deletes thumbnails. When I run HD cleanup or CCleaner, I deselect delete thumbnails.

[NormO]

Unless you have a 64 bit version of windows 7, you'll only be able to use 3GB of your 12GB RAM anyway.
I would try running system maintenance,

[wulf109]

Put Windows XP on your new computer.

[MOVIEGEEK]

I have Windows 7 64 bit on my desktop with 8GB of RAM and thumbnails open fast, maybe you need to optimize:

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?63273-*-Windows-7-Ultimate-Twea...l=1#post442151

[jman98]

This is not a cheap solution, but if you've got the cash you could do what I did. I bought a 256 GB SSD and I installed Win 7 64 bit to it. It boots fast and disc operations are a dream. I have two 2 TB drives that I use for work space/storage. If you can use an SSD for Win 7, everything that access the drive runs fast.

I can't personally recommend wulf109's XP suggestion. Eventually XP support will run out and it's my understanding that there have recently been some rather serious exploits in Windows code that effects Windows prior to Vista, but Microsoft hasn't bothered to fix them for anything before Vista. I expect that policy to continue as a way to nudge people off of XP. Now whether these exploits are really anything you need to worry about or not is a good question, but it illustrates how Microsoft is actively making XP a less and less attractive option every day.

[aedipuss]

what's in the folder that displays slowly? videos? pictures? what is the default program that opens them? for pictures use the windows picture viewer. for video make sure it's almost anything but wmp, maybe change all videos to open with vlc.