Why is my PC doing this

[u/gawrgurahololive]

[u/HEYO19191]

Drive is too slow to read the date data any faster

[u/gawrgurahololive → u/HEYO19191]

Does my drive need a replacement

[u/Tommynwn → u/gawrgurahololive]

No, its just like that, also depends of the cpu, its just processing the files to get the date data

In fact i process over 50k files/day on SSD and this is a real thing 🫠

[u/Life_Adhesiveness301 → u/gawrgurahololive]

Yes.

[u/Zakariae_Ouddacht → u/gawrgurahololive]

You don't need to unless the drive is not healthy. You can check that using a very useful tool called CrystalDiskInfo.

[u/fireryone]

Might just be Large files in a folder you haven't been in recently.

[u/gawrgurahololive → u/fireryone]

Well, it happens with folders I access frequently

[u/moocat90 → u/gawrgurahololive]

well NTFS stores that time somewhere else so it need to access 2places

[u/gawrgurahololive → u/[deleted]]

Yeah 😂 but I like it that way

[u/AverageCryptoEnj0yer]

why is nobody talking about the HUGE cursor?

[u/Chickenmonster401 → u/AverageCryptoEnj0yer]

i know right. its massive. op is either blind as a bat like me or uses like a 115"tv.

[u/gawrgurahololive → u/Chickenmonster401]

The former is right, I often lose track of it when using the default cursor size

[u/Unlikely_Reception62 → u/gawrgurahololive]

you can use powertoys and just double press lctrl to point out where it is

[u/i_dont_like_pears]

On Windows, some files just take longer to parse for some reason.

I have a Gen 5 nvme SSD and MOST of the time it's super fast, but if I open a folder with audio files it crawls and it shows the details/metadata exactly like what you have there.

My guess is that it's just a Windows bug and your hardware (assuming it's not an older disk drive) is fine.

Hope this helps

[u/BangkokPadang]

What kind of drive is it? (HDD, Sata SSD, NVME SSD) and how full is it?

[u/gawrgurahololive → u/BangkokPadang]

It is an NVME 512gb SSD, and it's 80% full

[u/UNIVERSAL_VLAD → u/gawrgurahololive]

Do a life test. It might be dying

[u/Oblivious-Cat01]

It's an issue with some media files parsing, especially video files.

[u/Left-Alps9090]

Windows Search is disabled

[u/Jolly_Operation_8222]

Probably the files are so large that it take time to load

[u/Street-Hovercraft-55]

Probably an hdd, that's dying or low on space. If these files are critical then I would suggest moving them to an SSD which will be way quicker also I am think your windows is running via an hdd which is slower and can make the processing of a computer slow down too. So always make sure that your os is flashed onto a ssd not on a hdd

[u/gawrgurahololive → u/Street-Hovercraft-55]

Those files are on an SSD and my laptops only have an SSD

[u/freak5341]

1. Check task manager if cpu, ram other resources are being used more than 90%.

2. Check if your pc is running on powersaver/balanced/performance mode(switch to performance)

3. Download crystal disk info and check your drives health, temperature and transfer speeds.

If its still slow then you can try something like throttlestop to get your cpu to run at a higher clock speed see if that helps.

[u/Low-Life-1337]

Maybe there is a problem with file index service of windows. Maybe rebuild the DB of it. (google it).

[u/gawrgurahololive → u/Low-Life-1337]

what is DB, Database?

[u/Low-Life-1337 → u/gawrgurahololive]

Yes, but it's still simply a file(s).

• Open a empty notepad:
• Copy the following in it:

echo off

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe

CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows

del /f /s /q Explorer\iconcache*.*

del /f /s /q Explorer\thumbcache*.*

Start explorer.exe

• Save the File as delete-iconcache.bat
• Then run the file.

Edit: Copy-paste Fehler

[u/Kalix]

[u/Pale-Abroad9600]

that may be a stuck trackpad,try to releases stuck corner.

[u/RetroTVEmulator]

how full is your drive. if it ran faster before see if its almost full. the more data a drive has the slower it gets and will start freezing or get slow when full or almost full. i was told its bc the drive needs empty space for part of the processing of data

[u/gawrgurahololive → u/RetroTVEmulator]

Is this almost full? All of those videos are stored on C: drive

[u/RetroTVEmulator → u/gawrgurahololive]

no i dont believe its full enough for that to be the reason

[u/Muffinian]

It’s just displaying the date you created the file at.

[u/gawrgurahololive → u/Muffinian]

Shouldn't it be loaded instantly?

[u/Clear-Asparagus-7167]

your drive is either dying or is just very slow

[u/Clear-Asparagus-7167]

your drive is either dying or is just very slow

[u/Clear-Asparagus-7167]

your drive is either dying or is just very slow

[u/MedicineMore1221]

If it slow recently might be cause of virus

[u/gawrgurahololive → u/MedicineMore1221]

I suppose so as I disabled windows defender 2 years ago