[PhilAdams]

Andy

Thanks for that! Not quite fixed, but better...

My jpg File Association was to Photoshop (though, interestingly, I also have a Canon Scanner, and the problem dates to near when that went on too!)

I've change the F.A. to 'MS Photo Editor', and now there's a bit of a pause (maybe 10-20 secs for a folder full), but if I then delete the Thumbs.db file and generate a new one, it's now back to normal.

Only tried this on a few folders so far, need to re-boot and see if it stays better...

...but it's far too late now - need to delete the thumbs.db file in over 70 folders of photos!!

I'll let you know how it goes in the next week!

I'd still be interested if anyone knows what the dickens is going on though!

Cheers for now.

Phil Adams