Opening Excisting Files - builds slow

Tools --Options -- System Options tab -- General --uncheck "show thumbnail graphics in Windows Explorer" When the above is off your computer does not try to read the image inside each & every stinking file & just shows the generic symbol for part, assembly, & drawing.

You can still see the thumbnail in widows explorer when you expand the "details" window to the left after selecting an individual file

Hope that helps. Steve T.

Steve - This was already deselected. I have looked at almost every setting I could find that would be of such a nature but still no luck.

Dan

so the generic icons are slow? Does it happen in windows or just the solidworks open dialog box?

Just the solid works dialog boxes. windows splashes on to the screen very nice.

just drawing at straws here -- but what add ins do you have turned on? Do you use pdmworks? Try turning some of them off (one at a time -- checking the open dialog -- then turn off another one) maybe that will track down the culprit

I have also seen a slow down in other areas when the task pane is thumb tacked down ( visible all the time ) -- is your expanded when browsing?

if it is faster in windows -- how are your files listed? details, thumbs, list, small, or large icons? compare the windows setting to that of solidworks in the open dialog box & make them the same to see if that makes a difference.

If I think of anything else I'll try posting more questions to help lead to the right direction

Steve T.

I was just informed by our CAD guy that windows explorer has the same issue. I thought I was getting good results from WE yesteday. It was suggested to delete the file association to the .sldprt file type and then reassociated it. I'm still working on your resolution path and this path.

I'll keep you posted.

Dan

Steve, You were so helpful that I would follow up with our solution. I tried everything you had suggested and with dispare, not one of them worked. We found that if we put all the Solidworks file extensions into the antivirus program as "Not to Scan" this solved our problem. Funny that when I disabled the antivirus program, that didn't change anything.

Thanks for your suggestions

Dan