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Windows 7 explorer + green ribbon

Jojikiba

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Posted June 20, 2009 at 5:33AM

I haven't installed Windows 7 yet so I would like to ask a question about Windows Explorer in Windows 7.

If you have a lot of video or image files stored in the My Pictures folder in Windows Vista, and if you have thumbnail view enabled, when you look at those files in Windows Explorer you often see a “green ribbon of death” as Windows takes several seconds or minutes to show you all the thumbnails.

Does this also happen in Windows 7?

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Forum Editor

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Posted June 20, 2009 at 12:19PM

on your computer, rather than the operating system.

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Jojikiba

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Posted June 21, 2009 at 12:08AM

Thank you for that good point Forum Editor. However, I have what I would consider a fairly speedy machine (Intel Core 2 quad Q9450 2.66 GHz, 4 GB RAM) but it still shows that green ribbon of death with Vista for a number of seconds when opening a folder with several GB of mpg files (admittedly, quite a heavy folder). I just wondered if that green ribbon still appears on a machine with fairly up-to-date specifications when opening a several-GB sized folder on Windows 7.

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Posted June 21, 2009 at 12:39AM

to produce thumbnails from a folder with several Gigabytes of image files inside, regardless of the operating system in use.

The time it takes will depend on the processors inside the case, rather than the software.

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Jojikiba

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Posted June 21, 2009 at 1:39AM

Yes I take your point that it is the processor rather than the OS that causes the problem. And one way round it of course is to divide the folder up into several folders with fewer files in them.

So I would like to ask a slightly different question. With Windows 7, has the way that image files are displayed in My Pictures changed from Vista at all?

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Forum Editor

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Posted June 21, 2009 at 10:55AM

it hasn't - at least not in the Release Candidate.

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Jojikiba

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Posted June 22, 2009 at 7:58AM

That's a shame. I was hoping they would beef it up in some way. Thanks for the answer anyway.

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