Jelle Druyts

For reasons still unclear to me, Windows Explorer became painfully slow on my Windows Vista beta (build 5219). Expanding directories in the Folder Tree would work as normal, but simply showing the contents of a folder would easily take half a minute or more. I've seen other reports of this on the internet but without any solution.

So I was doing all my regular work in the command line (which is quite horrible if you're used to the whole drag & drop thingy) until I found out that simply checking the the "Use Windows classic folders" setting (Tools menu, Folder Options) resolved my issue:

The "Show preview and filters" option sure looks a lot better, but I'll pass if it takes more than 2 seconds to render, thankyouverymuch... But I'm sure this will get resolved in future builds of the OS. In the meantime, I've got my Windows Explorer back at full speed!