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Thursday, December 6, 2007

Speed Up or Fastening Detailed View in Windows Explorer

First you have to know how windows explorer read and view using “Detail” mode. Detail mode is one of the modes that available in explorer. Others are: Thumbnails, list, Icon, and tiles. With detail mode, explorer will read each file in the directory folder before it finally view. If the directory has a numerous and relatively large files (such as: folder that store media files eg: mp3, dat, mpeg, avi, etc), windows will lags as it reads through each one, and this will make a longer process.

For that reason, if you want to speed up the reading and viewing in detail mode, you have to disable viewing unwanted attributes of files that have large content. The step are: Open your windows explorer and navigate to the folder that you want to optimize (such as music or video folder).

In detail mode, right click the bar at the top which displaying the names of the attribute columns. You will see: size, type, etc in that column. Uncheck unwanted or unneeded detail. Windows Explorer within a second will apply your customize preferences immediately, and longs lists of unnecessary attribute will not be displayed anymore. With less attribute such as attribute of size and type, explorer will make faster lags and viewing.

End of tips or tutorial. Happy Explore!