Sunday, November 18, 2007

Is your PC Slow - 4 A faster way to open folders

This has been an irritant for me for a long time. Very often, when I click on My Computer, I see this little dingaling icon swinging back and forth before the folder actually opens.

This tip ia a bit of a gem to increase folder opening speed.

Go to My Computer – Tools – Folder Options – View

Uncheck “Automatically search for network folders and printers”

You can also go through some of the other optiosn and decide whether you want to uncheck them. Then click on “Apply to All Folders”.The screen looks like this :




Windows apparently automatically searches for network files and printers every time you open Windows Explorer and this is what causes the delay.



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