Stopping Win 7 explorer reading meta data?

[probedb]

Hi folks,

Is there anyway to stop Windows 7 from scanning meta data from images and video?

It's really NO SWEARING annoying that if you open a directory with a lot of pictures or videos it insists on trying to scan everyone for dimensions etc as it really slows it down.

Surely this can be disabled?

Any thoughts?

Ta
Paul.

 

[paradigm]

It only does it once, once it is indexed it won't bother again unless the file's attributes change.

Drive indexing makes searching faster, just leave it be.