delay on folder loading

Try manually indexing it.

~Lordbob

Was wondering if anybody has any suggestions for this particular problem?

In my case, it's my Downloads folder under Favorites that is slow to open. It takes about 45 seconds after I click it, while I watch the green bar scroll across the top to open. This is simply a shortcut to C:\users\profilename\Downloads

This is on my laptop, running 7 Enterprise 32-bit. I checked the indexing options and Users is indexed. For good measure, I deleted the index and rebuilt it, but the same problem persists.

My downloads folder consists of 226 Folders, 1,254 files totaling approx 17.8GB of space.

Strange. My downloads folder opens immediately going down the usual path so i created a download, put that on my desktop and it worked just as fast. You have more in your downloads that i have by a long measure but that should no effect it that much. If you go down the long path, C:/usres/ etc is it still as slow. What i would try might sound a bit crude but may help. I would rename the downlods folder DownloadsX then create a new folder in the same location called Downloads then copy one fifolder from DownloadsX to Downloads and see if the new downloads loads faster. If it does then perhaps we could conclude that it is the high quantity of folders that casuses the delay.
Sorry this is so long but supper is pressing and I haven't time to do a precis.