Vista - Slow HDD's

On three of my hard drives (500 gig capacity each) I have placed approx
450gig of movies in the sperate root directories. When I access this folder,
it takes a minimum 10 seconds before I can access any files and for those
10 - 15 seconds, whole PC locks up except for the Green Progress bar -
Remotely through my Modded Xbox, standard Xbox360 or laptops, I can access
the files quickly and efficently. I understand that I have a lot of files
and vista craps on about it. My question is, What is the Green Progress Bar
in the Address Bar of Windows Explorer directly associated with? Is it
loading into cache the video file dimensions, duration etc or is it just
because there is a heap of files and, is there any way of preventing this
from happening or a way of speeding up HDD 'initial' access. In XP Media
Centre Edition, I had a folder with 20 thousand plus files and it took
nowhere near the time vista does to access a folder with only 380 (ish)
files.

I should also mention, once the HDDs are loaded and running, they are their
usual expected speed to access.

Thanks if anyone can help.

Rusty.

ping

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