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re: Show hidden folders freezes PC
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by philmrs
(65 messages posted)
No I reckon you would exoect this if you were applying the hidden or read only attribute
but now when you are switching displays. The folder I applied it on had about 65
files in it
On Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 5:39 pm, Spexx wrote:
>The time it takes depends on the number of folders and files on the disk. Explorer
>has to re-scan the relevant contents of the disk drive to recompile the list displayed.
>The reason the PC freezes is that the disk I/O uses Kernel CPU time which cannot
>be interrupted. When you go back to not showing the hidden files/folders, the information
>required is already cached in memory. Cheers. Spexx.
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