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Recently had a Skt. A XP2600+ based system box with failed IDE ports on its'
PC Chips M848A motherboard (SiS 746FX chipset).
Swapped it for a new/unopened SHUTTLE AK38N - VIA KT333CF / VIA VT8235
chipset, (made in 2004),
....repair installed XP Home ed.+SP1 ...installed SP3 from CD and did the 68
or so updates from MS, ...subsequent to SP3.
....and added a PCI 3x SATAII / IDE card, I ext. +2 int. + 1x IDE port(not
used), and 500gb Seagate hd,
....and a PCI 4x USB 2.0 card.
....and a new 350w 80+ spec. psu.
So XP boot drive is 80gb C:\ on motherboard IDE0 port, (where is always
was),
Extra storage 500gb SataII Seagate hard disk D:\ is connected to a
internal PCI card SataII port.
....there is a card reader fitted connected to mobo USB pin header, drives
F:\ G:\ H:\ and I:\
....DVD ROM and DVDRW drives, jumpered master and slave on motherboard IDE1
port, drive letters set to X:\ and Y:\ (before adding in SataII hd)
....memory 2x 512mb ddr333(166mhz), slot 1 and 2 respectively and 256mg
ddr333 in slot 3.
XP's "C:\Documents and Settings\###\My Documents\My Pictures" (where
### is the name of the owner) contained approx. fifty sub-directories
containing 580 mb's of .jpgs,
each sub-directory containing a varying number of .jpgs e.g. some
containing 10 or 20, and some other containing 50 or 60 or more.
....and the "C:\Documents and Settings\###\My Documents\My Music" folder
contained approx. 22gb's of music in various formats.
I "moved" the Documents and Settings folder (i.e.right-clicked deskktop "My
Documents" to get pop-out menu, then | Properties | Move and moved it onto
drive D:\ and into a directory I made called "My Documents" (forgot to make
D:\My Documents the first time and ended up with hundreds of files plonked
in the root-directory of drive D:\ ... and had to Ghost restore C:\ and
start again !!!).
So hardware and XP platform is mostly lovely, ....all set up in correct
drive order etc.
..so that's the hardware, here's the inconvenience :-
Viewing thumbnails in one of the "My Pictures" directories that contains
just 10 or 20 .jpg's is quite swift but, viewing thumbnails in one of the
"My Pictures" directories that contains 50 or 60 .jpg's (each .jpg is
approx. 600mb's to 950mb's in size btw), the first 10 or 20, or maybe a few
more, are thumbnailed very swiftly, and then everything seems to get held up
by heavy hard-disk activity, for ages !
At one point, I deleted the thumbs.db cache files in 5 or 6 of the
directories in "My Pictures" and switched folder view to "Details," but, I
suspect that the owner will be wanting to use thumbnail view, and will soon
be complaining about the time it takes to produce thumbnail view, in folders
containing large number of .jpg's.
Beyond fitting a much newer board with dual-core cpu etc. and more RAM ...
....any suggestions as to how to improve thumbs.db performance ?
any tips muchly appreciated,
regards, Richard
Recently had a Skt. A XP2600+ based system box with failed IDE ports on its'
PC Chips M848A motherboard (SiS 746FX chipset).
Swapped it for a new/unopened SHUTTLE AK38N - VIA KT333CF / VIA VT8235
chipset, (made in 2004),
....repair installed XP Home ed.+SP1 ...installed SP3 from CD and did the 68
or so updates from MS, ...subsequent to SP3.
....and added a PCI 3x SATAII / IDE card, I ext. +2 int. + 1x IDE port(not
used), and 500gb Seagate hd,
....and a PCI 4x USB 2.0 card.
....and a new 350w 80+ spec. psu.
So XP boot drive is 80gb C:\ on motherboard IDE0 port, (where is always
was),
Extra storage 500gb SataII Seagate hard disk D:\ is connected to a
internal PCI card SataII port.
....there is a card reader fitted connected to mobo USB pin header, drives
F:\ G:\ H:\ and I:\
....DVD ROM and DVDRW drives, jumpered master and slave on motherboard IDE1
port, drive letters set to X:\ and Y:\ (before adding in SataII hd)
....memory 2x 512mb ddr333(166mhz), slot 1 and 2 respectively and 256mg
ddr333 in slot 3.
XP's "C:\Documents and Settings\###\My Documents\My Pictures" (where
### is the name of the owner) contained approx. fifty sub-directories
containing 580 mb's of .jpgs,
each sub-directory containing a varying number of .jpgs e.g. some
containing 10 or 20, and some other containing 50 or 60 or more.
....and the "C:\Documents and Settings\###\My Documents\My Music" folder
contained approx. 22gb's of music in various formats.
I "moved" the Documents and Settings folder (i.e.right-clicked deskktop "My
Documents" to get pop-out menu, then | Properties | Move and moved it onto
drive D:\ and into a directory I made called "My Documents" (forgot to make
D:\My Documents the first time and ended up with hundreds of files plonked
in the root-directory of drive D:\ ... and had to Ghost restore C:\ and
start again !!!).
So hardware and XP platform is mostly lovely, ....all set up in correct
drive order etc.
..so that's the hardware, here's the inconvenience :-
Viewing thumbnails in one of the "My Pictures" directories that contains
just 10 or 20 .jpg's is quite swift but, viewing thumbnails in one of the
"My Pictures" directories that contains 50 or 60 .jpg's (each .jpg is
approx. 600mb's to 950mb's in size btw), the first 10 or 20, or maybe a few
more, are thumbnailed very swiftly, and then everything seems to get held up
by heavy hard-disk activity, for ages !
At one point, I deleted the thumbs.db cache files in 5 or 6 of the
directories in "My Pictures" and switched folder view to "Details," but, I
suspect that the owner will be wanting to use thumbnail view, and will soon
be complaining about the time it takes to produce thumbnail view, in folders
containing large number of .jpg's.
Beyond fitting a much newer board with dual-core cpu etc. and more RAM ...
....any suggestions as to how to improve thumbs.db performance ?
any tips muchly appreciated,
regards, Richard