I think at this point we're well satisfied with the answers, and remaining symptoms are unrelated to Windows Explorer. Microsoft: "Explorer - sort by date very very slow" Superuser: "Sorting by Date - Very Slow" : The 'Date' column attempts to get EXIF data, and is distinct from the filesystem 'Date created' and 'Date modified' columns. This could be useful, but is a little drastic - would disable display of properties in Explorer for all directories, not just problem ones. This solution disables the registry's listing for a PropertyHandler for a particular filename extension. Superuser Prevent Windows Explorer from trying to extract metadata. This is not useful for our purposes, so we'd like to disable this behavior. What Explorer appears to be doing is reading the video file content to produce thumbnails, or obtain other metadata. This is accompanied by a very slow-growing green bar in the Address slot. When using Windows Explorer (Windows 7 64 Pro) to browse and rearrange these directories, Explorer slows down to an unusable level, uses gigabytes of RAM, and pre-empts or slows other programs (such as Media Center) from using the same disk while this is in progress. We have directories containing hundreds of video files.
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