Optimize & make Windows 7 folders display contents faster

January 28th, 2010 . Filed under: Tips. Tags:

You may have noticed that in some cases your folders in Windows 7 or Vista takes quite a bit of time to display to display its contents and the green progress bar in the address bar loads slowly.

This happens when your folder may have a lot of large document or images or music or video files.

To optimize such folders, so that they load and display the contents faster, you may try the following:

- Right click on the folder
- Click Properties
- Select Customize tab

Now under:

What kind of folder do you want?

Optimize the folder for:

Select from the drop down menu the type of files the said folder predominantly holds.

If you wish to apply this template to all the folders, also select the check box.

Click Apply > OK.


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    By Philip on January 31st, 2010 at 8:05 AM

    Thanks, this worked a treat!

    By Anthony on February 1st, 2010 at 8:28 PM

    thanks for the tip….

    By Shahnawaz on February 5th, 2010 at 1:59 PM

    I am already using the folder optimization technique since Windows 7 release.The folder displays much faster after applying this trick

    By vnavna on February 11th, 2010 at 8:29 PM

    Thank you so much. I have been getting so upset about this when trying to get to a folder within a mapped drive it would refresh itself three times before the folder I wanted would show up. They should have just brought back the blank screen with the hour glass again like XP and previous versions of Windows.

     

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