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Other => Other => Topic started by: srtony1946 on August 22, 2008, 04:38:52 PM

Title: My Music
Post by: srtony1946 on August 22, 2008, 04:38:52 PM
I takes about 10 seconds for my new computer to open up my music file, Which contains about 3.5 GB of mp-3s. My old computer would open It up right away and it was way less powerful. What could cause this and how can I fix?
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: kpac on August 22, 2008, 04:42:35 PM
How much RAM have you? Hard drive size? Free space?
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: homer on August 22, 2008, 05:38:11 PM
in addition to kpac's questions, is that the only file opening slow?
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: Broni on August 22, 2008, 08:25:49 PM
Windows version?
Is indexing on, or off?
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: srtony1946 on August 23, 2008, 01:28:56 AM
I have 4Gb Ram plenty of free space on my 500 gb harddrive, This Is the only program that opens slow. I have Windows XP Home, I am not sure about the Indexing being off or on. How can I check?
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on August 23, 2008, 01:32:21 AM
First, What version of Windows is this?
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: srtony1946 on August 23, 2008, 02:09:58 AM
Like I said Windows XP Home.
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on August 23, 2008, 03:57:31 AM
Heh, sorry about that.

Right Click the folder and go to Advanced and make sure there is a Tick at For fast searching, allow Indexing Service to index this folder.
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: srtony1946 on August 23, 2008, 07:43:07 AM
Ok I did as you said, Still takes 10 to 12 seconds to open. Let me try to reboot. No this did not work.
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: Broni on August 23, 2008, 10:03:47 PM
No, go the other way, disable indexing.
If that doesn't work, there may be some context menu issue.
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: patio on August 24, 2008, 01:05:20 PM
Defrag...
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: Broni on August 24, 2008, 01:08:26 PM
No golf today?
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: srtony1946 on August 24, 2008, 04:06:24 PM
That did not work either, I Already tried to defrag,. What do you mean by context Issue?
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: kpac on August 24, 2008, 04:12:03 PM
I don't think there is any way around it. It is, well, 3.5Gb, and that's a lot of space.... It's bound to take longer than a folder with 10mb in it to load.

What I don't get is that your old PC opened them straight away.... ???
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: srtony1946 on August 24, 2008, 04:19:46 PM
OK, I solved the problem. went to my music, Properties, customize, What kind of folder do you want, chose Pictures (best for many files). Opens right up! Thanks for trying to help me with this one, Sometimes you just have to brainstorm to solve a problem. b][/b]
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: kpac on August 24, 2008, 04:22:03 PM
Glad you got it sorted. ;)
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: Broni on August 24, 2008, 04:30:02 PM
Good job :)
Title: Re: My Music
Post by: patio on August 25, 2008, 07:03:34 PM
So it's now opening a folder full of shortcuts instead of searching and reading 3.5G of file headers...get it ? ?