How to open folders with tons of files in XP as fast as other commande

[jaclaz]

Why Microsoft designed a filesystem able to withstand 4 294 967 295 files when its dll are not able to handle the 1/4 ?

The same reason why any parent shouldn't have more than 64,000 children?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303969/en-us

More interesting KB's :

http://www.jazzkeyboard.com/jilly/funny-microsoft-q-articles-from-the-technet-support-knowledge-base/

jaclaz

[Kmuland]

Why Microsoft designed a filesystem able to withstand 4 294 967 295 files when its dll are not able to handle the 1/4 ?

The more one million files in one folder was on a small partition about 70Go. Those where logs files (about 1 000 new create each working day) stored there for more than 3 years. Nobody ever thought that they should need to be removed after 1 month.

so what is the solution? I bet that servers admins know a lot about these problems.

Use alternative file commanders instead the m$ crap? go to dos/linux/osx?

What Pro users/corporations do to handle this problem?

All windows releases suffer of this problem? I tried 2003 and its present too. What about these new 7/2008 OSs? For me they are just consumers OSes with tons of stupid visuals and huge in resources....

[allen2]

I am a servers admin. I only encountered this kind of problem three times. The only solution, we came with was setting up scripts to clean/archive regularly to avoid the problem.