Hello All,
What setting in Microsoft Windows XP (pro) causes the operating system to spontaneously read-ahead simply by highlighting a folder? This folder contains 4-5 sub-folders and a couple of those sub-folders have about >5,000 files in each of them. Thus, the folder I click on only has 4-5 objects in it, yet the disk drive crunches as if Windows XP is trying to perform some sort of caching another level down.
Is there some sort of read-ahead or multi-level caching feature in Windows XP that is enabled that produces this condition? I know it isn't becuase the disk itself needs defragging as I did that yesterday. It just seems that if any folder-tree that contains a lot of files Windows XP wants to cache this. Caching it and of itself as an idea is harmless, but this has happened on trees with, say, >20K files in it.
Anyone have any ideas or something I could check (or uncheck)?
What setting in Microsoft Windows XP (pro) causes the operating system to spontaneously read-ahead simply by highlighting a folder? This folder contains 4-5 sub-folders and a couple of those sub-folders have about >5,000 files in each of them. Thus, the folder I click on only has 4-5 objects in it, yet the disk drive crunches as if Windows XP is trying to perform some sort of caching another level down.
Is there some sort of read-ahead or multi-level caching feature in Windows XP that is enabled that produces this condition? I know it isn't becuase the disk itself needs defragging as I did that yesterday. It just seems that if any folder-tree that contains a lot of files Windows XP wants to cache this. Caching it and of itself as an idea is harmless, but this has happened on trees with, say, >20K files in it.
Anyone have any ideas or something I could check (or uncheck)?
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