Aug 02 2007
Windows image viewer slow
When your windows image viewer is really slow in showing the image (halts on ‘Generating preview’), make sure that there are no dead links in the same folder as you are currently viewing the file in. Broken links to network drives for example cause slowdown of the image viewer. This usually occurs on the desktop, which contains shortcuts to programs or games that might no longer be installed on your computer.
Moving the images to a seperate directory solves the problem.
Other tags:
- slow windows image viewer
- performance problem windows image viewer
- Picture taking forever to open
YOU’RE GENIUS… THANK YOU!!!!!
This had been driving me nuts for several months. I would be receiving images via skype or messenger. and when I tried to open them with “Windows Picture and Fax Viewer” it could take 30 seconds regardless of size of image.
Following your advice I moved all my Desktop icons into a separate folder. Then, to my delight, Widows Picture and Fax Viewer was all of a sudden lightning fast like in the old days. So then I started moving Desktop icons back again one by one until I found a broken Samba network connection shortcut. Now it’s deleted and gone, and my system is back to normal again.
I would never have guessed that that was the problem You’re a hero!!!
Thanks, so simple yet so right!