Hi,



I'm running vista SP1 and store a lot of VERY large files, 29gb is not
unusual.

These files are mainly video AVI files.

Each time I access the directory which hold these files my systems hangs for
about 10 minutes and then works again. If I move my mouse over one of these
files, it seems to work, but shortly afterwards it hangs again.

In the background I can hear the discs working overtime and windows resource
monitor clocks up massive disc usage.

Looking through support forums, they suggested turning off thumbnails, which
I did but there was no difference.

Any thoughts?

For reference my system is as follows:

AMD x64 - 6000 (3gz)
4gb main memory
adaptec 5805 raid controller, controlling 2 arrays
Array 1 3 x 500gb - 1TB available
Array 2 4 x 1TB - 3TB available

The files are stored on array 1

When you open a file folder in Vista it scans the whole folder for some reason, and it also scans all the subfolders, too. If you have a couple layers of folders and subfolders with more than a couple of really big files in each one, Vista is going to scan the folder, the files within, and then the subfolders and the files in those folders. I don't know why it does this and I don't know how to turn it off. My advice to you is to make a specific file for each large file.

"Iain" <Iain @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm running vista SP1 and store a lot of VERY large files, 29gb is not
> unusual.
>
> These files are mainly video AVI files.
>
> Each time I access the directory which hold these files my systems hangs
> for
> about 10 minutes and then works again. If I move my mouse over one of
> these
> files, it seems to work, but shortly afterwards it hangs again.
>
> In the background I can hear the discs working overtime and windows
> resource
> monitor clocks up massive disc usage.
>
> Looking through support forums, they suggested turning off thumbnails,
> which
> I did but there was no difference.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> For reference my system is as follows:
>
> AMD x64 - 6000 (3gz)
> 4gb main memory
> adaptec 5805 raid controller, controlling 2 arrays
> Array 1 3 x 500gb - 1TB available
> Array 2 4 x 1TB - 3TB available
>
> The files are stored on array 1

Download ShellExView and try disabling Video Thumbnail Extractor. I don't
know if it will fix the problem, but it might help.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.zip