I recently noticed that my desktop icons (8) and tray buttons (7) were re-populating a lot and werent that nippy either... so I tried the MaxCachedIcons hack AND then changed it to Max Cached Icons as I read the first one doesnt work... anyway nothing happened and I noticed that my Start Menu Icons are slow to populate (about 4 per second) and the ADMIN TOOLS link i have on populates now at 1 per second???
ive since deleted the Max Cached Icons from registry and im left with this problem..
its REALLY annoying cos it shouldnt be doing this and ive only recently re-installed Windows 7 32-Bit (from 64-Bit) to see if it fixed another problem I had with high DPC/ISR usage when copying or downloading files... which didnt work... ive been told its a win7 bug but dunno about that... anway thats another problem for another time, right now i want this cache problem fixed....
can anyone help me please?
thanks
My Computer
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
GT1000
OS
Windows 7 Pro x64
CPU
Intel Core-i5 3470 @ 3.67Ghz (Ivy-Bridge)
Motherboard
Gigabyte H77M-D3H
Memory
8Gb (2x4) 1616Mhz Crucial Ballistix
Graphics Card(s)
nVidia GTX650
Sound Card
Via 2021T
Monitor(s) Displays
19" LG Flatron
Screen Resolution
1440x900
Hard Drives
2 x 120Gb Samsung 840 EVO in RAID '0' (1GB/s - 800MB/s - 140k IOPS)
500Gb Seagate Barracuda HDD
As you can see from my original post this is what i already tried which seemed to either not work or make it worse... I read on other forums that the above hack does not work for win7 and you have to add spaces between words and create a new STRING Value instead... so I tried that too and that didnt work??? ive since removed it and now have seriously slow icon cache BUT its seems to be ONLY on the START MENU and TASKBAR...??? everywhere else is OK like control panel etc...
also, when u set that is it DECIMAL or HEXIDECIMAL.....
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My Computer
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
GT1000
OS
Windows 7 Pro x64
CPU
Intel Core-i5 3470 @ 3.67Ghz (Ivy-Bridge)
Motherboard
Gigabyte H77M-D3H
Memory
8Gb (2x4) 1616Mhz Crucial Ballistix
Graphics Card(s)
nVidia GTX650
Sound Card
Via 2021T
Monitor(s) Displays
19" LG Flatron
Screen Resolution
1440x900
Hard Drives
2 x 120Gb Samsung 840 EVO in RAID '0' (1GB/s - 800MB/s - 140k IOPS)
500Gb Seagate Barracuda HDD
found culprit -PANDA CLOUD ANTIVIRUS - it slugging up the PC... soon as I removed it everything was fine... there was also long pauses when run installers
My Computer
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
GT1000
OS
Windows 7 Pro x64
CPU
Intel Core-i5 3470 @ 3.67Ghz (Ivy-Bridge)
Motherboard
Gigabyte H77M-D3H
Memory
8Gb (2x4) 1616Mhz Crucial Ballistix
Graphics Card(s)
nVidia GTX650
Sound Card
Via 2021T
Monitor(s) Displays
19" LG Flatron
Screen Resolution
1440x900
Hard Drives
2 x 120Gb Samsung 840 EVO in RAID '0' (1GB/s - 800MB/s - 140k IOPS)
500Gb Seagate Barracuda HDD
Same here, found out the problem was Avast. Funny thing though, it was working ok and then just started slowing down the pc for no reason. I have not changed its settings. Probably got worse with the recent automatic update of Avast, who knows...
yes same thing here even when I disable Avast and have it not running at startup it still does it... but if I un install it what will we have as an Anti Virus... looking at raymond's cc blog Avast seemed the lightest and fastest... is there no decent lite anti virus out there!?
My Computer
OS
Windows 7 64bit and Vista 64bit
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo
Motherboard
Abit IP35 DARK RAIDER
Memory
4GB DDR2 800
Graphics Card(s)
ATI HD 3850
Screen Resolution
1680x1050
Hard Drives
2x 250GB Western Digital in RAID0 booting with VISTA 64 (for about 3 years).
1x 60GB NEW Corsair SSD with Windows 7 (64) on it.
1x 640GB Western Digital Storage drive (currently unplugged).
yes but according to thorough benchmarks by raymond at raymond.cc
MSE is slower than avast hence why i chose avast.
My Computer
OS
Windows 7 64bit and Vista 64bit
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo
Motherboard
Abit IP35 DARK RAIDER
Memory
4GB DDR2 800
Graphics Card(s)
ATI HD 3850
Screen Resolution
1680x1050
Hard Drives
2x 250GB Western Digital in RAID0 booting with VISTA 64 (for about 3 years).
1x 60GB NEW Corsair SSD with Windows 7 (64) on it.
1x 640GB Western Digital Storage drive (currently unplugged).
2x 250GB Western Digital in RAID0 booting with VISTA 64 (for about 3 years).
1x 60GB NEW Corsair SSD with Windows 7 (64) on it.
1x 640GB Western Digital Storage drive (currently unplugged).
I might have to give that a whirl... what exactly was your problem? (That was solved by MSE).
My Computer
OS
Windows 7 64bit and Vista 64bit
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo
Motherboard
Abit IP35 DARK RAIDER
Memory
4GB DDR2 800
Graphics Card(s)
ATI HD 3850
Screen Resolution
1680x1050
Hard Drives
2x 250GB Western Digital in RAID0 booting with VISTA 64 (for about 3 years).
1x 60GB NEW Corsair SSD with Windows 7 (64) on it.
1x 640GB Western Digital Storage drive (currently unplugged).
I don't know if this helps, but I found that W7 icons now load much faster (as do the menus) when I disabled HP Support Assistant.
I disabled it because I found annoying because it always tried to update itself just when I was doing something important and wouldn't close properly (just hung) especially if I wasn't connected to the net at the time. My Laptop seem to run just fine now without it.
