About a week or so ago my previously smooth running W7 system started to have big problems. Explorer would most often hang when accessing folders with
big image files. I would get what I call the "Green Gallows Banner" ( it's the kiss of death and hangs everything) where the green progress bar would slow right down, the Explorer window would "not respond" and worse still this affected other Explorer windows and the system as a whole, basically the whole machine becomes unresponsive. I'm testing everything, hardware and software, but I really think it's a bug in W7 Explorer and it must have been introduced by a recent update. I foolishly had updates set to auto. My hardware is fine as XP on another partition works fine, with exactly the same folders and files. I've always noted that in XP, it takes forever to build a thumbnail database but this doesn't affect the operation of the Explorer window, in W7 it would seem to do so. There seem to be other comments on the web about this problem in W7 and Vista, but I'd be interested to know if other W7 users have noticed this, especially if it has occurred only recently.
