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General Software Discussion / Re: W7 taskbar>toolbar>'desktop' extremely slow
« on: March 05, 2013, 06:07 PM »
Another possibility:
It is my experience that it only gets slow when the harddrive(s) goes to sleep.
My powersaving options let my harddrives go to sleep if they aren't accessed for a few hours.
The delay for the toolbar pop up appears to be the 15-20 seconds it takes for the harddrive to wind-up again. If you catch it around the 20 second period, you can actually see it re-reading each individual thumbnail from the drive, as if it is scanning individual executables for their icons. I don't see any caching occurring except what it pulls into active memory.
I haven't tested it yet, but it may actually need to wake up each individual drive that any menu shortcuts are pointing to. Once I can read one toolbar menu, the others only have a 1-2 second delay. After that, they all respond in less than a second.
Seems like this would be a major oversight for any OS GUI, but then again Windows has proven they don't design things for continued usage. They still don't have a simple icon for "Upgrade your harddrive".
It is my experience that it only gets slow when the harddrive(s) goes to sleep.
My powersaving options let my harddrives go to sleep if they aren't accessed for a few hours.
The delay for the toolbar pop up appears to be the 15-20 seconds it takes for the harddrive to wind-up again. If you catch it around the 20 second period, you can actually see it re-reading each individual thumbnail from the drive, as if it is scanning individual executables for their icons. I don't see any caching occurring except what it pulls into active memory.
I haven't tested it yet, but it may actually need to wake up each individual drive that any menu shortcuts are pointing to. Once I can read one toolbar menu, the others only have a 1-2 second delay. After that, they all respond in less than a second.
Seems like this would be a major oversight for any OS GUI, but then again Windows has proven they don't design things for continued usage. They still don't have a simple icon for "Upgrade your harddrive".