folder taking ages to load

builder22 · 17 Dec 2012 at 15:23

the first time (after starting the pc) I go to look in my downloads folder it takes about 30 seconds to load or whatever it's doing (the address bar fills up with green)
all I want to do is be able to sort the files by date or whatever to look through them, but I can't until the green bar has filled up
I can search for things straight away but sometimes i need to look through things by date/name or whatever

surely it shouldn't take so long just to load a folder

zakblood · 17 Dec 2012 at 15:32

see if indexing is on or off on the drive or folder
and yes it also depends what size folder, how many sub folders etc

theheyes · 17 Dec 2012 at 16:53

I'd run a chkdsk on the drive.

d_brennen · 17 Dec 2012 at 17:05

Make sure hidden files and folders is ticked in Folder Options (type it in the Start/Search box), copy anything you need out of the Download folder to somewhere safe and then nuke the contents

Antar Bolaeisk · 17 Dec 2012 at 17:22

I had this problem with a corrupt .gif extension registry in the past. Might be worth moving the different file types in to separate folders to see if something like that might be causing the loading issue. If every folder bar one loads smoothly you've found your culprit.

lurkio · 17 Dec 2012 at 18:41

a stab in the dark

Do you have AVI's in this folder ?