I have over 40,000 tif images to manage.  I want to distribute them into folders so that each folder contains 4 GB.  This way I can burn them to DVD, one folder per DVD.  The problem is:
                         When I open the folder that contains all 40,00 or so images, the file icons take forever to load.  I cannot quickley SCROLL , or select files because I have to wait for each little ICON to load.  These are not Thumbnails.  Under the views button, I have selected list.  
Any suggestions?
thanksYou could possibly be short on RAM (?) XP will take up to 4 X 1024Mb with the right motherboard.

Try using Diskeeper 9 Professional's Frag-Shield and see if the MFT is big enough on that drive.

Just how fast is your processor and how much RAM do you have?

The real problem is that you have too many files in the one folder ...

Been here before. ;-)PENTIUM 4
1 gig RAM
Now isn't that odd?

ok bear with me.
Under folder View, there are options for thumbnails, tiles, icons, list, and details.

I chose list from the view options, this allows the maximum amount of files to be visable in the window.

I assumed that this would be the fastest way to view all the files.

If I chose Icons, the files load extremely fast.  This solved my problem, yet I am very confused as to why Icons, being larger, and more bulky appearing, would load faster than list, which consists of tiny symbols.

any explaination would be most welcome.
It has to show less icons in one Window and can load as you scroll down rather than having them load all at once. Caching that's called.XP or any windows will also be slow to load a large folder if you have 'view file size' selected as it must read every file size that it does not have in cache.have you tried scanning for adware/spyware? might be one of the reasons of your PC loading "slow"