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explorer starts ghost searches
Until last week I was quite happy with the Windows 7 explorer with the indexed search. On my 500GB data drive it finds anything I ask for, in over a million files, in a matter of seconds or less.
My C: drive is not indexed, I only install programs there and hardly ever have to search anything there. But yesterday and today I noticed something spooky:
While browsing C:/blabla/downloads (just 161 items) it is extremely slow, each time I click the scroll bar it starts with an empty window, then shows file names, then columns like date and size slowly get their information. While doing so the bread crump bar (or is it still called address bar?) turns slowly green, just like when it is actually searching something.
I haven't yet seen it in any other folder. BTW there are no hidden files other than desktop.ini. This is a few weeks old i7 with 4GB DDR3, the C: drive is SSD, so IMHO it's not strange that I expect more speed than Windows 3.1 on 4.77 MHz IBM PC-XT (yes, I'm that old, even older ;-)