Whenever I access, with my local Windows 7 explorer in details view, a remote share on our production servers containing our own xml log files, the location bar turns into a green progress bar that takes many minutes to complete while the status bar states "Searching for items". During that time explorer becomes very unresponsive at sorting when I click on a column header.
This particular folder simply contains some 1.8GB in 2388 xml and txt log files.
I did have the column "File version" showing, but removing it doesn't help.
I really don't understand wtf explorer thinks it's doing, because it is already showing all the info I need. Name, Date modified, Type and Size. Nothing else. So what's it doing?
I have tried every option I can think of in Explorer's Folder Options – View properties tab.
Best Answer
On the windows 7 machine right click and choose properties on the share\folder\drive in question and on the 'Customize' tab pick 'Documents' on the 'Optimize this folder for' drop down item.
Enable the 'Also apply this template to all subfolders'