Explorer slow showing folders containing PDF files

[Guest fsb@thefsb.org]

I have Windows XP SP2 and Acrobat Pro 7.0.9 on a Dell Precision

M65 about 4 months old.

 

Windows Explorer experiences a significant delay displaying the

contents of folders that contain large PDF files. Process Explorer

shows that during these delays explorer.exe is reading from the

disk at about 200 MByte/sec. The thread that's busy during these

delays is ntdll.dll!RtlAllocateHeap+0x18c. The duration of the

delay is proportional to the total size of the PDF files in the

directory. If I rename these files to have, say, .doc extension

instead of .pdf then the delay disappears. The delay to display a

folder containing 300 MByte of PDF files is about 25 seconds.

Enough to be really annoying.

 

In ShellExView I tried disabling all non-Microsoft extensions,

including several Adobe Acrobat related extensions. Made no odds.

 

Any suggestions?

[Guest Terry R.]

Re: Explorer slow showing folders containing PDF files

 

The date and time was 2/19/2008 1:46 PM, and on a whim, fsb@thefsb.org

pounded out on the keyboard:

> I have Windows XP SP2 and Acrobat Pro 7.0.9 on a Dell Precision

> M65 about 4 months old.

>

> Windows Explorer experiences a significant delay displaying the

> contents of folders that contain large PDF files. Process Explorer

> shows that during these delays explorer.exe is reading from the

> disk at about 200 MByte/sec. The thread that's busy during these

> delays is ntdll.dll!RtlAllocateHeap+0x18c. The duration of the

> delay is proportional to the total size of the PDF files in the

> directory. If I rename these files to have, say, .doc extension

> instead of .pdf then the delay disappears. The delay to display a

> folder containing 300 MByte of PDF files is about 25 seconds.

> Enough to be really annoying.

>

> In ShellExView I tried disabling all non-Microsoft extensions,

> including several Adobe Acrobat related extensions. Made no odds.

>

> Any suggestions?

 

Does switching to Details view help?

 

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[Guest fsb@thefsb.org]

Re: Explorer slow showing folders containing PDF files

 

On Feb 19, 4:59 pm, "Terry R." <F1ComNOS...@pobox.com> wrote:

>

> Does switching to Details view help?

>

 

I only ever use details view. :-(

[Guest Terry R.]

Re: Explorer slow showing folders containing PDF files

 

The date and time was 2/19/2008 2:57 PM, and on a whim, fsb@thefsb.org

pounded out on the keyboard:

> On Feb 19, 4:59 pm, "Terry R." <F1ComNOS...@pobox.com> wrote:

>> Does switching to Details view help?

>>

>

> I only ever use details view. :-(

 

I know you said you used Adobe Pro (for printing), but maybe try

installing Foxit Reader and let it be the default for viewing PDF's.

It's much smaller and faster than Adobe Reader. Adobe has become a pig

of a program ever since version 5 and there's no need for most to endure

with its slowness.

 

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