Slow as hell, opening up pictures.

[NachT]

Thought this was the right place to post this, as it's kind of a HD problem, ish... any ways.

When opening a picture ( i.e. a jpeg ) from the desktop only, it takes ages, for the picture to load, i use microsofts data / fax viewer thing to open pics. The program opens up straight away, but i get "Generating picture... " or somthing along those lines for a good 5 - 8 seconds, it should be instant.

This only happens when opening pictures from the desktop, when i open pics from any other location they open up instantly. Wierd.


Was woundering if any one has every came across somthing like this, it's a small thing but it's enugh to get on my nervs lol, any one got any thing that might help. I've de-fragged the disk, and searched google, but can't find anything.

And don't realy wanna re-install my OS just a silly thing like that.


Thanks guys,

NachT

 

[NachT]

Oh i see, i do have a few shortcuts to my storage drive on my desktop, i also have a shortcut to a shared folder on my desktop, and the computer with the share on it is off.

I'll try this out, thanks mate!

 

[NachT]

I had this problem once with my system and found that it was when i had shortcuts or mappings to drives/folders which were no longer accessible (such as a network share where the computer was turned off etc), after removing them, the pictures would then show in a instant.

lol cool, i've just had a chance to try this out as i've been busy, and it works

who would have thought hehe, deleted the shortcut to a share on another computer that was not on, and now they load instantly.

Does this only effect pictures? or would anything els have more.. speed improvments?


Thanks mate