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Windows 7 Green-Bar-of-slowness. (why do simple tasks like sorting a folder by size or name take so long?)

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Mar 15, 202671024 views
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In older versions of windows you'd click on the filename column heading and wop - the files are sorted by name. Click on size, bif - they're sorted by size. In windows 7 do the same thing and you get to watch a green bar slowly get bigger... slowly. Did I mention that it's slow? How can a simple ta…

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Fix for: Windows 7 Green-Bar-of-slowness. (why do simple tasks like sorting a folder by size or name take so long?)

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I found the answer from the Windows Seven Forums thread Windows 7 - Explorer Slow to sort folders/files, although it still begs the question of how windows can be so slow sorting folders 'optimized' for video or pictures. The answer is as follows: R…

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