Comments on: Freezing Windows Picture & Fax Viewer

Question: Freezing Windows Picture & Fax Viewer

lemonfridge — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:52:55 -0800

Everytime i preview a JPG stored on my Windows XP desktop my whole PC freezes up for around 10 seconds...usually longer.

if I open a JPG in My Documents (using the preview application by default) it opens instantly.

If i copy the same JPG to my Desktop and do the same it takes 10sec+ to open. it freezes up while displaying "Generating preview". It becomes completely unresponsive.

if i copy the JPG into a new folder on my Desktop, it opens quick as a flash.

if i copy the same file back to My Documents (or any other folder) it opens normally once still.

All other files seem to open just fine. Whats going on?

By: internal

internal — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:48:37 -0800

How many files are in the desktop folder?

By: lemonfridge

lemonfridge — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:44:37 -0800

Amazing, I just had an email from a non-mefite,

I'm attempting to contact you via your website as I do not have an account on Metafilter.

The freezing you get when viewing image files is symptomatic of a broken/dead shortcut link within the same directory. I would recheck all your shortcuts to see that they are properly linked, and delete the ones no longer used. This should fix the problem.

Best of luck,

Will

Turns out I had a shortcut to my iBook on my desktop. Its rarely connected, so most of the time its a dead link. I deleted it and hy presto, everything works fine again!

(windows pisses me off sometimes it REALLY does)

By: gregschoen

gregschoen — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:10:43 -0800

Will should get an account on Mefi. ;)

By: lemonfridge

lemonfridge — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:47:02 -0800

Im purchasing him one :)