grt wrote:

> Another cause is typically icon-caching. The windows shell has a
> componant called PIFMGR.DLL that traverses the start menu
> tree and desktop and caches icons. The default iconcache is
> small and when full the PIFMGR will dump the contents and
> rebuild the cache. If the number of icons is large, you will have a
> continuous slow loop where it builds then rebuilds the cache.
> Typically you will see the desktop redrawn during the cache
> dump.
> To prevent this, increase the default icon cache with this registry
> hack.
>
> REGEDIT4
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
> CurrentVersion\Explorer]
> "Max Cached Icons"="6000"

I couldn't find this setting, is it something that needs to be added, or
is something missing in your instructions?

TIA,

Jose

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