Paul wrote in news
Unsteadyken wrote:
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When accessing a folder I get a green line crawling along the top of
the screen that often takes a good minute to go from left to right.

Windows is examining the files in the folder and creating appropriate
icons and/or thumbnails for display. This is a one time process, unless
you use CCleaner or disk cleanup to remove thumbnails, in which case
they will be created again next time you view the folder.

I don't use any cleaners like that, and it *still* happens to me.

When I see the green line, I head to the kitchen to make coffee :-)
The time is not wasted. There's a lot of pots of coffee though.

Paul

I'm not sure, but I believe that the green line also occurs if you are
doing a search and the drive is not part of the Windows indexing process. I
would suggest that you hit the search icon and search for 'indexing
options'. Usually the default is only the C:\ drive. If you have any other
drives add them to the list of drives to be indexed. If you don't have any
other drives you might want to check to see if Windows Indexing is turned
on. Some people believe that turning it off makes their system more
responsive.