Have you checked wether indexing is active on the drive? I don't know that
this is the problem but it sounds like maybe you have some
allocation/pointer issues. Just a thought.


"Cynyster" wrote in message
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Ok this has got to be one of the more annoying problems for me . Even more
than
the random folder view every time you enter a folder.

I have a foler that collects a large number of small files for a program
that
I use.. Typically they are under 50k in size but often there can be
close to
200,000 in a single folder.

If I want to delete one it can take several minutes to delete it...

It will sit at "preparing to delete" for what seems like forever.

The more files in a folder the longer it takes...

Now my computer is arguably top of the line it has an intel s3200 MB
with a
xeon quad core and 4 gigs of ram and terrabyte hard drives.

It should not take 15 minutes to delete 1,000 of the 200,000 files,

Additionally these files are on a second internal physical drive and
should
have nothing to do with the rest of the system.

Oh and one other note. Mass deleting files from a command prompt works
fine.
so if I want to delete everything in the folder via a command prompt it
works
as expected but if I try via windows explorer it takes forever.

Has M$ come out with a patch for this yet? I am on service pack 2 of
vista
ultimate and it has all the updates that were presented via the update
utility.

Thanks for any help