From: "Geo." 

Yes the folder contents display immediately but the background activity is
the problem because if one of the files is corrupt or locked by another
process it hangs the whole window. It's also a whole lot of activity that I
don't need the system to spend resources on.

It's like driving a car that wants to slow down and read every street sign
and if one is blocked from view it stops and waits till it can see the
sigh. I just want to get to where I want to go and damn the stupid system
reading as I drive.

If I set the folder default template to say list or details view, it still
does this stupid reading every file thing. Is there no off switch?

There is another thing with this that I've noticed, it doesn't take the
first frame of a video and use that for the icon, instead it reads what
appears to be a random number of frames and then grabs one. If I were to
create a icon in each video file would that stop this nonsense?

When I open a decent sized folder, you know the green progress bar that
appears in the address bar, well it can take 4 or 5 minutes before it
completes. That's a whole LOT of background activity I can do without.

Geo.


"Rich"  wrote in message news:46768fdc{at}w3.nls.net...
    If I wanted one default view for local folders and another for remote
due to speed reasons I can't do that.

Are you saying that the folder contents are not displaying immediately with
thumbnail extraction happening in the background?

Rich

  "Geo."  wrote in message
news:46765e76{at}w3.nls.net...
  Thanks it does help but not a whole lot. Here's the annoyance I'm having.

  I have a couple of network file servers, I attach to them //ip/share
instead
  of mapping drives (because mapped drives has it's own problems when the
  servers are not available).

  Because of that any setting I set for folders on these servers doesn't
  stick. They immediately use the default template next time I attach but
  depending on what's in the folder at that particular moment determines
which
  default template they are going to use.

  If I knew how the system was determining which default template to use I
  could at least understand this seemingly inconsistant behavior and
possibly
  avoid it.

  If there was an off switch I could turn this crap off.

  If I wanted one default view for local folders and another for remote due
to
  speed reasons I can't do that.

  See how this gets annoying real quick?

  I'm also leary of setting the default templates (I did set one) because I
  just know the first service pack is going to reset them all on me and undo
  my defaults (been there many times) so what I'm going to do is dig into
the
  registry and see if I can find an off switch for this insidious little
  bastard .

  If I were a programmer I'd write a control panel applet 5 colums of
  checkboxes to set all of them on one screen, that's really what MS should
  have done.

  Geo.

  "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
  news:4675f8d1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
  > This may help
  >
  >
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1480933&SiteID=17
  > Be aware that the 'Apply to Folders' option only affects folders of the
  > same type or template, e.g. 'All Items', 'Documents', 'Pics & Video',
etc.
  > So if you want to set list view as the default for all the major folder
  > types, you need to use 'Apply to Folders' five times, once from each
type
  > of
  > folder.
  >
  >
  >
  > That being said, you can force the 'All Items' template on to
  > all folders with the following:
  >
  > Copy the text between the lines below into notepad & save as a .reg
file.
  > Watch out for line wrap -- [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...\Shell] is all one
line,
  > there is a space between 'Local' and 'Settings'.
  >
  > --------------------------------------------------
  > Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
  >
  > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local
  > Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell]
  > "FolderType"="NotSpecified"
  >
  > --------------------------------------------------
  >
  > Merging the .reg file will set the 'All Items' template for any folders
  > that
  > don't currently have a view saved with a different template.  You can
  > clear
  > all saved views by deleting the
  >
  > "HKCU\Software\Classes\Local
  > Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags"
  >
  > key BEFORE merging the .reg file.  If any folders open with a different
  > template after clearing the 'Bags' key & merging the .reg file, they
most
  > likely have a template specified via their desktop.ini file.

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