Speed up thumbnails loading?

Those programs do preload all thumbnails, but those are more like
catalogmanagers.
In my situation I have thumbnails done by explorer and use Picaview to view
pictures I would like to view on screen.

And the programs don't use explorer as a way to work with the pictures.
Picaview in this matter is a plugin to explorer.exe which allows to preview
and open the picture (lightweight, not with fat programs like Picture
Galary).


Sebastiaan


"David Deley" <deleyd.DeleteThis@cox.net> wrote in message
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>I noticed the same thing and found a couple free thumbnail & image viewing
>programs which do load all the thumbnails when you move to a folder (CPU
>goes to near 100% while it loads all the thumbnails, but
> afterward you can scroll up/down and all the thumbnails are instantly
> there.)
>
> Try these free programs:
> XnView
> FastStone Image Viewer (free for home use)
>
>
> There's also a nice Duplicate Image Finder ($10) at
> http://www.rmsft.com/
> (not an exact duplicate file finder, more of a fuzzy "these two pictures
> look quite alike" finder.)
>
>
> MeZelf wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a couple of folders with quite a number of pictures in them and
>> have the folders set to display them as thumbnails.
>> But sadly only the files within the view of explorer get 'loaded' to
>> thumbnails.
>> And quitte slowly too.
>>
>> In XP if I scrolled down, explorer would load all graphic files as
>> thumbnails from the bottom of the list all the way up.
>> Is there is way of having Vista do this as well?
>> Of am I stuck on loading thumbnails on 'view-range' only?
>>
>> Sebastiaan

"MeZelf" <usul_atreides--not--.RemoveThis@hotmail.not.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Those programs do preload all thumbnails, but those are more like
> catalogmanagers.
> In my situation I have thumbnails done by explorer and use Picaview to
> view pictures I would like to view on screen.
>
> And the programs don't use explorer as a way to work with the pictures.
> Picaview in this matter is a plugin to explorer.exe which allows to
> preview and open the picture (lightweight, not with fat programs like
> Picture Galary).

If you are looking for a file manager that preloads all thumbnails in a
list: check out XYplorer. On the bottom of this page you find a screenshot
of a thumbnail listing:
http://www.xyplorer.com/release_7.50.htm
XYplorer optionally caches thumbnails, so any non-first visit to a folder is
lightning fast. Plus it has the so-called Mouse-Down-Blow-Up feature: left
mouse button down on a thumbnail will pop up a full size preview as long as
you hold the button down. Very useful!

http://www.xyplorer.com/

Don

It's not completely what I was looking for (its still outside explorer
itself) but this program will definitely helpout weeding out the majority of
files to ditch.
Sofar I use it with 'Details with Thumbnails #1 128x96' and it works
decently sofar.

Thanks for the tip on this program.

Sebastiaan


"Donald Lessau" <don.DeleteThis@oflex.com> wrote in message
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>> Those programs do preload all thumbnails, but those are more like
>> catalogmanagers.
>> In my situation I have thumbnails done by explorer and use Picaview to
>> view pictures I would like to view on screen.
....
> If you are looking for a file manager that preloads all thumbnails in a
> list: check out XYplorer. On the bottom of this page you find a screenshot
> of a thumbnail listing:
> http://www.xyplorer.com/release_7.50.htm
....
> http://www.xyplorer.com/
>
> Don