Explorer Loses Icons - Speeds up - Very Snappy.

[esecallum]

I USE WINDOWS ME.

After running some memory hungry applications i noticed that explorer stopped displaying icons next to the filename as it normally does.

i.e it seemed to have turned into a text based explorer.

it was just displaying the file names in both panes.

also it was very snappy and very responsive with zero lag presumably because it di not have to fetch/display/generate the icons associated with folders and files.

the question is can this behaviour be made permanent? For example if i deleted the icon cache?

also does a text based explorer as described above exist or can it be written?

I suppose it would be easy to write a simple file text based explorer which would only display filenames without icons or memory intensive requirements.

If the behaviour of explorer can be made permanently like as explained it would improve 9x systems even more in that the memory hogging done by prolonged/extended file operations would not occur.

perhaps some simple bat file patch could switch on/off this behaviour of explorer.

i think the icon cache perhaps could be renamed or moved.

could you please experiment and report here?

[GrofLuigi]

I don't know what happened to your system, but you could try:

Search in registry for "defaulticon". Delete them all.

Icon cache gets recreated if deleted. You can try to shrink it with "Max Cached Icons" (in registry).

This should apply to most, if not all versions of Windows.

GL

[esecallum]

I don't know what happened to your system, but you could try:

Search in registry for "defaulticon". Delete them all.

Icon cache gets recreated if deleted. You can try to shrink it with "Max Cached Icons" (in registry).

This should apply to most, if not all versions of Windows.

GL

no no...

you misunderstand.

i want to make this behaviour controllable....i want explorer not to display icons in either pane.

Edited January 4, 2009 by esecallum