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I have a folder where I keep my Windows desktop wallpaper. This folder has over 500 images. Every time I want to change my wallpaper I navigate to this folder and set the view to large icons so that I can preview the images before setting them as my desktop background.
The first issue I have is whenever I set the view to large icons it takes forever for the images to preview. (I guess Windows is parsing each image to generate thumbnails.) If I scroll down to like the bottom of the page and wait until the thumbnail previews are generated (which takes like 5-10 seconds), then I scroll back up to the top it seems like the thumbnails are re-generated thereby causing me to have to wait again. As I move up and down in this folder the issue repeats causing many delays. If the folder only contains a few images this is not an issue but with my folder, which contains 500+ images (each ~2 Mb) it really slows things down.
Is there a way to configure Windows such that generating thumbnail previews happens faster and doesn't repeat so much?
The main reason why I am asking this question is due to another issue with Windows and setting background images...
Lets say I scroll to the bottom of the folder and right-click and image to set it as my desktop background. As soon as I do this the window scrolls all the way back up to the top again! I then have to scroll back down to where I was. If I am going through each image one by one this causes me to loose my place so I have to scroll back down and find where I was to set the next image (assuming I don't want to keep the current background).
The combination of this scroll reset issue and slow thumbnail generation makes for a very frustrating experience.
Is there a way I can stop Windows from scrolling back up to the top of the page after I set an image as my desktop background?
Thank you,
Jan
The first issue I have is whenever I set the view to large icons it takes forever for the images to preview. (I guess Windows is parsing each image to generate thumbnails.) If I scroll down to like the bottom of the page and wait until the thumbnail previews are generated (which takes like 5-10 seconds), then I scroll back up to the top it seems like the thumbnails are re-generated thereby causing me to have to wait again. As I move up and down in this folder the issue repeats causing many delays. If the folder only contains a few images this is not an issue but with my folder, which contains 500+ images (each ~2 Mb) it really slows things down.
Is there a way to configure Windows such that generating thumbnail previews happens faster and doesn't repeat so much?
The main reason why I am asking this question is due to another issue with Windows and setting background images...
Lets say I scroll to the bottom of the folder and right-click and image to set it as my desktop background. As soon as I do this the window scrolls all the way back up to the top again! I then have to scroll back down to where I was. If I am going through each image one by one this causes me to loose my place so I have to scroll back down and find where I was to set the next image (assuming I don't want to keep the current background).
The combination of this scroll reset issue and slow thumbnail generation makes for a very frustrating experience.
Is there a way I can stop Windows from scrolling back up to the top of the page after I set an image as my desktop background?
Thank you,
Jan
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- Windows 8 Pro