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Windows 11 Home, ver. 23H2
When I open a folder of images and choose the Large Icons view, the thumbs load very slowly. Example: A folder with 77 jpeg images (most smaller than 300K) takes three minutes to load all the thumbnails. After they load, they're stored (I assume) in the thumbs.db file within that folder; so, the next time, they pop right up.
Before Win 11, I was using Win 7 Pro. A folder this size would load all the thumbnail images in two or three seconds at most. So I'm assuming the slow loading is an issue with Windows 11.
I tried WinThumbsPreloader, but that evidently doesn't work for files that are stored on an external hard drive (as mine are). Even if did work, that wouldn't be a good solution, because I do commercial Photoshop work and have scores of client folders holding nearly 10,000 images. So it would be a great help if I could get thumbnails to load in W11 as quickly as they used to load in W7.
Any ideas?
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RESOLVED!
Someone on another forum suggested that I create an administrator account and see if the thumbs loaded any faster. They did. They loaded very fast, as they should. So the problem was in my local user account, and the solution was to create a new local account. I could migrate all my data from the corrupted account, but of course I couldn't use the same profile, because that's where the unknown problem lurked. So I had to go through the ordeal of setting everything up anew, as if it was a new install. But at least the slow-loading thumbnails problem is resolved.
N.B. to those who have a similar problem. Rule out a corrupted profile first, because that's so easy to determine.
Mega thanks to all who offered help and suggestions on this. I appreciate it very much.
When I open a folder of images and choose the Large Icons view, the thumbs load very slowly. Example: A folder with 77 jpeg images (most smaller than 300K) takes three minutes to load all the thumbnails. After they load, they're stored (I assume) in the thumbs.db file within that folder; so, the next time, they pop right up.
Before Win 11, I was using Win 7 Pro. A folder this size would load all the thumbnail images in two or three seconds at most. So I'm assuming the slow loading is an issue with Windows 11.
I tried WinThumbsPreloader, but that evidently doesn't work for files that are stored on an external hard drive (as mine are). Even if did work, that wouldn't be a good solution, because I do commercial Photoshop work and have scores of client folders holding nearly 10,000 images. So it would be a great help if I could get thumbnails to load in W11 as quickly as they used to load in W7.
Any ideas?
___________
RESOLVED!
Someone on another forum suggested that I create an administrator account and see if the thumbs loaded any faster. They did. They loaded very fast, as they should. So the problem was in my local user account, and the solution was to create a new local account. I could migrate all my data from the corrupted account, but of course I couldn't use the same profile, because that's where the unknown problem lurked. So I had to go through the ordeal of setting everything up anew, as if it was a new install. But at least the slow-loading thumbnails problem is resolved.
N.B. to those who have a similar problem. Rule out a corrupted profile first, because that's so easy to determine.
Mega thanks to all who offered help and suggestions on this. I appreciate it very much.
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