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I have been wondering for a few years why copying and deleting files in Windows seems to take so darn long! "Finding files..." step seemed to last forever. Why?
Because of an exception my code threw in Visual Studio that made the most sense as corruption on my system, I reinstalled Windows and cleaned up 5 years of clutter. And after that it was still copying and deleting files slowly. As I was installing Everything, and reading about Win 10 Search being broken in IN, my mind finally subconsciously made a leap that seems to have solved it!
Just disable Search Indexing! (I did it by disabling it on D - my data drive, through the Explorer properties window.) Then copying and deleting doesn't have the 'Finding' step, which is actually sending all the filenames to the indexing service to get things straightened out on that end. A quick test and there was no 'Finding Files' stage at all - right to deleting!
You probably already knew this, but I still had to say "Hallelujah!" Almost as fast as I remember Win 3.1 being! Yippee!
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Disable indexing (and recycling) is the first thing(s) I do with a fresh system.
I also disable 8dot3 names.
And animations.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Disable indexing (and recycling) is the first thing(s) I do with a fresh system.
Is indexing a single/common registry entry?
I have an entire folder, appropriately named "Post-OS install must-haves", currently containing no less than 28 .reg files I've collected or created myself over the years, that each disables some specific OS setting I find to be useless (if not outright working against my wishes). I immediately apply a lot of these to new systems I put together (either physical or virtual). To give you an idea:
DisableServerShutdownEventTracker.reg
DisableThumbsDbCreation.reg
UnblockOutlookMsiAndZipAttachments.reg
GetWin7PhotoViewerBackInWin10.reg
There's a few more I always go through using Explorer options (I haven't yet tracked down the equivalent registry entries): Hiding drives, hiding file extensions (why????) hiding OS files...all things that MS enables out the of the box to "simplify" the user experience...
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Do you have one that makes all the files in Explorer show up as detail view by default, regardless of whether they are music or pictures? If so, please share.
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Unfortunately, no. This is one of those settings I have to manually revisit on each new OS install. Or new user profile that's created (it's a per-user setting)...
This discussion seems to indicate it's pretty much encoded in some binary format. Whether you want to risk using some undocumented thing or not is up to you...
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My solution: It's often quicker still to drop to a command prompt and type a del command. Of course this doesn't help here if you've been carefully selecting individual files one-by-one in Explorer with no particular discernible pattern (there's no common wildcard you can use at a command prompt).
You solution can't hurt, but I'm not sure if this helps when managing files across a LAN. Of course this might be an entirely different problem. I tend to have indexing disabled at both ends, yet it can often take a lot of time just to refresh the content of a folder that contains very few files.
As far as I'm concerned (as a general comment), search has been broken since the Windows 2000 era. I've been saying since then that the whole "web search" paradigm applied to local file search is broken, and will remain broken, until the indexing can (efficiently) be maintained in realtime. The example I always use is to edit a .txt file to add a particular string, save it, then search for the string. If it doesn't come back right away, as far as I'm concerned, it's broken. More often than not, I use Visual Studio's "Find in Files", which does not try to use that indexing system. Yes, it's slower. No, it doesn't miss a thing. Guess which is more important to me?
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Message Closed
modified 5-Feb-20 14:52pm.
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Wrong place for your question. Please try Quick Answers[^] instead.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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And i just wanted to ask a question about how to toast an EPROM. It's a hardware question, so it's allowed here, right?
Ahhh, it's too late. Looks like my museum notebook is almost done with toasting. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: toast an EPROM
Bah - that's too easy. Now - toasting WITH an EPROM - that takes control... 
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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No. That would be all too easy to do if I accidentally jumpered the wrong VPP (the voltage for the programming pulse).
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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phil.o wrote: Wrong place for your question
Only because they are not a regular, The Lounge[^]
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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So, what do you propose instead?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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phil.o wrote: what do you propose instead?
Consistency.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Well in this case I invite you to communicate directly with either the moderation team, so that this kind of post is finally authorized in the Lounge, or to @code-witch if you think he is abusing the forum.
In my opinion, he is not; he is not asking us to help solve/understand a development issue. This is more a conversation a team of developpers would have around a cup of coffee during their pause, imho.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Don't take it personal. I don't care either way, I just wish people would be consistent.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I trust people, at least most of them on this forum, to be as consistent as possible. I just don't think both questions are in the same category.
I'm not taking it personally; since this is not the first time you do this remark and it seems to annoy you, why not opening a discussion about that in the appropriate forum? It could enact a better formulation of what is allowed and what is not on the Lounge. And if you really don't care, then let it go 
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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phil.o wrote: I just don't think both questions are in the same category.
In this case you may be right. However, I have often seen newcomers post questions similar to code-witch (who is a woman by the way) and they get told off by frequent Loungers. But then have no problem having code-witch's facebook feed dump right into CP.
phil.o wrote: And if you really don't care, then let it go
I think you misunderstood what I don't care about. I DO care that CP is clickish. Why? I don't know. It's just annoying. People annoy me. I should have been born a deer. Let's hope for reincarnation. 
And each time I have brought it up I get ignored or argued with, like you here, so bringing it up elsewhere won't do any good.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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You get ignored or argued with. What other option do you expect?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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phil.o wrote: What other option do you expect?
For people to agree with me, duh. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I empathize then, must be frustrating
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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phil.o wrote: must be frustrating
Indeed. The world would be much better if everyone thought like me.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I'm not a woman. I'm quite male, just genderweird.
And i don't use facebook
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: I'm not a woman.
Stop it. I could have sworn I've seen you tell others that you are a woman. However, please do not send pics either way to prove your point. I believe you. I was wrong.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Nope, I've told others the same thing I've told you. =)
Real programmers use butterflies
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