Icons and caches
Posted: 26 Aug 2014 23:29
This is probably a stupid question. (I'm good at stupid questions!)
My most-used "PC" is a netbook: 1.6GHz, Windows 7SE, 2Gb RAM, nothing exactly exciting.
I keep shortcuts to most of my software in folders on the desktop, and I have XYplorer shortcuts to those folders in the catalog so I can get at them quickly without going back to the desktop.
However... if I access a folder I haven't looked in recently, the icons to the shortcuts take a long time to appear, while the disk thrashes away for a while. I assume that's to be expected, given that those programs are scattered all over the place.
I know Windows maintains an icon cache, and I assume this thrashing occurs because the icons aren't in the cache anymore and Windows is rebuilding them.
So... is there any way to ask XYplorer to cache icon sets and to not ask Windows for them if they're locally cached? Or is this asking more than XYp can (or should be expected to) do?
[I have a nasty feeling I've just said something like:
Dear Don. Please entirely replace Explorer. When you've done that, please make Windows better. By the end of next week? Thanks!
]
My most-used "PC" is a netbook: 1.6GHz, Windows 7SE, 2Gb RAM, nothing exactly exciting.
I keep shortcuts to most of my software in folders on the desktop, and I have XYplorer shortcuts to those folders in the catalog so I can get at them quickly without going back to the desktop.
However... if I access a folder I haven't looked in recently, the icons to the shortcuts take a long time to appear, while the disk thrashes away for a while. I assume that's to be expected, given that those programs are scattered all over the place.
I know Windows maintains an icon cache, and I assume this thrashing occurs because the icons aren't in the cache anymore and Windows is rebuilding them.
So... is there any way to ask XYplorer to cache icon sets and to not ask Windows for them if they're locally cached? Or is this asking more than XYp can (or should be expected to) do?
[I have a nasty feeling I've just said something like:
Dear Don. Please entirely replace Explorer. When you've done that, please make Windows better. By the end of next week? Thanks!
]