[ern0]

It's a long-time design flaw at Microsoft.

Long time ago, in Windows for Workgroups 3.11 times, when I opened Explorer, it was getting slower and slower. Finally, changing a directory took 5 secs. The hard disk was working hard (there were LED indicators!).

I've figured out that the root cause was my C:\Documents directory, which contained a bunch of files, maybe some hundreds of mp3s, don't remember. Moved _all_ files from C:\Documents made Explorer lightning fast.

I think, Explorer wanted to show a summary of different file types, which was completely unnecessary and couldn't turnded off.

[Narishma]

There was no Explorer in Windows 3.11, nor a Documents directory.