Sorry, can't help with that programming-problem you've had. But as you've got it working: thank you! :)

Thanks again for all that patience :) Great work an a wonderful way to review that week.

The delay happens only the first time (creating the thumbs i guess) ... doesn't happen when going to that folder later. But it will happen again when going to that folder after shutting down XP. So i'll activate it again .. let's see what happens :)

Not sure right now: do you think i should enable thumbs-caching again?

No peanuts, but some tortillas will do the job just fine me thinks :) .. and about that mixing thing ... dunno for sure if i - the defendant - should say anything to that question? prost

Of course Ms Paperwork is welcome too to that party .. ermmmm .. court ... ahh .. well ...

You should never mix J&B with Vodka RavenNM .. and if i say never, i mean never ever dear nightmarish friend :) But i guess, i'll take my beloved Tequilla Antigua and go over there to Michelle, you'll bring something else and we discuss this matter further with her as moderator? Or is this "disregard of the court"? :-))) skoll cheers hicks

Now i know what you're refering to MGD. That's the first i deactivate after installing MS Office :). Slows down startup and uses ressources for nothing .. yep. Windows-Caching is NOT deactivated .. it's set to server as you suggested (good thing that works since Win 3.1 if there's enough RAM). I was refering to that thumb-caching which i deactivated. Still there's that thumbs.db. Try to delete them? Just to see if Windows trys to rebuild them??? They definately are there ... (see hidden files is one of the things i activate always .. i love to see what is really there .. not just what Billy wants me to see). Btw.: no prob with global settings as long as i remember what i've done. :-) @3DGuy: swapfile is set to custom sized 1.5 GB minimum, max 3 GB. Had to do that for Windows assigned to much disc-space to swapping which i feel is absolutely not necessary with 1 GB of RAM. Or am i wrong with that? Thanks again. You're great guys! :-)

@3DGuy: yep, i start to dislike this more and more too. But as PS CS is on my wishlist, i hope the browser in there is as good as the one i know from PSP and ACD-See. :) @MGD: yep, i'll try that .. thanks a lot. One question: i've been told more than once, that deactivating the caching is the better way? And to Nr. 1: what is "fast find"? Because not knowing what it is, i may have not used it, but i'm not sure? scratcheshead. And btw.: it's WinXP Pro. Thanks again :)

Thought about that too but they are soooo expensive. Remember the days where a 2GB DAT-Streamer was enough .. sigh. These days, one DVD-backup per month and RAID-mirroring have to do the job. Don't feel all to good with that ... Tom

I don't want to offend anyone .. you at least Snakey and i gladly admit, sometimes a cropped thumb is more than ok. I also don't want to say all cropped ones are deceiving .. but sometimes this is the case. Anyways .. all this is already said but (and that's the reason for my lenghty intro into that posting) i want to put my sign to that first sentence from rickymaveety. It's an error most new into photography make (me no less than all others!) ... putting to much into an image. In that case, cropping the whole image and learning from having to do so is a great exercise .. and a lot better than just cropping the thumbs and trying to get two out of one. Cropping is no way to get another point of view .. moving the tripod is .. ;) Sorry, i really do not want to offend anyone but i feel some wise words have been spoken here. Thank you rickymaveety! Need that reminder more than once myself!

Dunno if it's difficult .. never had a chance to try but it seems to be no easy task .. anyways, difficult or not, this are excellent shots and the sculptures are gorgeous. As Donald .. i don't know if i could do something like that. Create so much beauty in days or even weeks and than with one sunny day, all is gone? Thanks for sharing this shots Benoit!!

@Michelle: thanks for not-paddling g. It seems to be independent of other progs. Happens with lots of programs open but with none of em too. 1 GB RAM should be enough but with Win XP i'm not sure any more. @Wivelrod: that option was turned off already. Did it again and marked "use on all folders" and at least that reloading seems to be gone. I may be wrong but the thumbs are loading somewhat faster now too. Using PS 6.0 myself. Unchecking "generate thumbsnails" provides the same problem as the idea from 3DGuy - no thumbs any more. @3DGuy: details are great on a lot of folders, yep! But as i don't touch my original shots i don't rename them and filenames like 123_4567.jpg are not helpful in finding the pic i'm looking for. Secondly, even without thumbs (e.g. in detail view) i have to wait that 2-3 minutes until all files get there PS-icon. They can be double-clicked before but it's visible, that Win XP is still working on that files. Strange, isn't it? Thanks a lot to you three!! :-)

@Donald: i'm talking of documents / images ... and some bryce/poser files .. even if i don't have that sizes you talk about, no chance to backup Win itself. @Zhounder .. wow .. Win98 .. great memories arise :-)

What's next? Doing my regular backups i need 5-6 DVDs these days .. sigh But welcome in the 21st century Donald! :)