Folder Freeze

[XPnvrworks]

Hello all!

I have a problem with a folder that keeps on freezing up. Whenever I'm just clicking on that folder or just highlighting it, the whole folder freezes up. I have to wait for like a minute for the freeze to be over, from there then I can access the folder. It doesnt happen if I use other programs (such as winamp) to open up the folder or acess the folder by activating the "folder button" (tree) in the explorer and use that, but if I click on the folder icon directly it freezes up. Other programs don't freeze up, just the folder. Also, when I view the task manager while the folder freezes, it shows two folders (the one that freezes up) not responding, when I only opened the folder once.

Any help? Thanx!

[caperjack]

whats in the folder .

[XPnvrworks]

There's lots of folders of jpg images from comic books and manga. Maybe like 80,000 pictures totalling around 20GB. It was working fine until like yesterday. I ran scandisk to no avail.

[Roberdin]

Probably trying to generate a preview of eevry item in the folder.

[XPnvrworks]

jesus that's crazy. any method to stop the explorer from doing that?

[jime0726]

what verion of windows are you using?

[XPnvrworks]

windows xp home edition, with the latest updates (i forgot which ones).

[jime0726]

like roberdin said, its trying to generate a preview of all the pics you have in there, if you go to view and change it from thumbnails to icons, you should have a much easier time getting into the folder.