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Resolved. thanks Paul T

How do I mark this as Resolved? Seems a bit ambiguous. I’m sure when somebody explains it will be obvious

Well for now I have found a  solution thanks to Paul T and Sticky Keys. I press the Shift key 5 times to fire up Sticky keys and then press the Ctrl key twice. I can then click on all the files to be copied and then move them to the appropriate folder. Voila job done.

Cheers Bob

 

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Just another Forum Poster wrote:

Select a single file and then press Ctrl + A to select everything else in the folder.

Thanks alejr I’m already using that

Cheers Bob

Paul T wrote:

Fire up Sticky Keys on your PC.
Press the Shift key 5 times to turn it on. Same to turn it off.

cheers, Paul

Thanks Paul, I’ll check it out.

Cheers Bob

Alex5723 wrote:

With the free TeraCopy app you can select multiple files/folder and copy to multiple folders.
The app will build a copy queue of ‘copy jobs’ and run uninterrupted.

TeraCopy is the fastest copy app on Windows (or Mac)

Thanks Alex, I’ll check it out.

Cheers Bob

Paul T wrote:

Hold the Ctrl key down when you click on the files will allow you to select multiple files.
Holding Shift allows you to select all files between two files.

cheers, Paul

Thanks Paul. Seeing as I can’t use 2 hands this is very difficult to do. But after some fiddling I found that I can make it work by jamming a tooth pick beside the Ctrl key. Seeing as I will be coping hundreds of files at a time, I won’t be jamming a tooth pick too often.

BTW is there a way to lock the Ctrl key down, other than a tooth pick 🙂

Cheers and thanks, Bob

 

The update settings is on my grandsons PC. He has turned it off and installed NetWorx so we will see in a day or so how its going. My main problem is that the only bandwidth usage I have access to is daily usage from my isp. This is how I noticed we had a problem. I need to read my router manual to see what I can get there. And NetWorx is installed on the 2 W10 PCs so will be able to check them. In a day or so I should be able to better understand what is going on.

I regularly check Startups and no problem there.

Paul T & BATcher. Thanks very much for your recomendations. I will get a copy of NetWorx.

Sudo15 thanks very much for your help. The P2P was turned off on 1 PC but had to turn it off on the other. I choose Custom also and turned off all the telemetry stuff but the other W10 PC still has it on. Do you know where I can disable all that?

I turn WiFi off via the router. A W10 and a W7 PC are connected directly to the router. The other W10 PC is connected to the router via the TP-Link Powerline adaptors. I will check the router as suggested.

I did some more testing. I renamed all the files that I moved from the Download folder with a prefix so I could find them easily and then moved them all back to the Download folder. I set the Download folder in Date sequence and then moved to another folder.. I then timed how long it took to access the Download folder. It was close to 5 seconds. In normal work on the PC this could be 10 seconds or more because I’m running other jobs, reading mail, trading, Excel work etc etc before I come back to the Download folder.

I then moved the currency trading files out of the download folder 1 file type at a time and then timed how long it took to access the Download folder again. Nothing changed until I got to the .EX4 files. When I moved these out the time dropped to just over a second. Moving the rest of the files made no difference to the timing, still a bit over 1 second.

.EX4 files are the executable files for Metatrader software. This is a Windows based trading system available from most brokers for trading Currencies, Commodities, some stocks etc.

Obviously it seems there is something strange that Windows does in getting the date and time from these .EX4 files. Now that I know I will make sure I keep these type of files in a small folder.

Thanks to everyone for your help, it was very much appreciated.

Martin my testing is showing exactly as you say, Changing the sort column is fast but switching to another folder and back again causes the problem but only when the folder is in Date sequence. I am displaying Name, Date, Type and Size.

I decided to reduce the size of the folder as nothing seems to have helped to date.

First off I moved most of the jpeg files out but that made little difference.

I do currency trading and had about 4.4GB and 350 files of data in the folder. Mostly it is zip, rar, video and MQL4 source and executables. After I moved these out there was a big change. The delay is now down to under a second and is definately liveable. Obviously something in these files was causing the problem and it wasn’t the size or number of files as there is still 38GB and 2700 odd files left. I moved less than 10% of the files.

I didn’t expect the files I moved to make much difference otherwise I would have moved each type seperately to see the effect it made. What I will do when I get a chance is move these files back to see what happens. But before I do I want to rename each type of file with a prefix so that I can easily delete them from the Download folder after testing (it was a pain going thru 3000+ files and tagging the ones I wanted to move).

Further info: I usually keep this Download folder in date sequence and that seems to be where the problem occurs. The following test was done using the same copy of File Explorer.
I click on Date and put the folder in date sequence.
I change to a folder on another drive and play around there.
I switch back to the Download folder and there is a 5 second or so pause before I have access.
I click on Name and put the folder in name sequence.
I change to a folder on another drive and play around there.
I switch back to the Download folder and I have instant access.

So the problem seems to only occur when the folder is in date sequence. I tried the above with Type and Size sequence and no problems.

I checked ‘Optimize Drives’ and the drive that has the Download folder on it is set to do a weekly defrag. It’s currently 0% fragmented so that’s not the problem.

mngerhold: I don’t have Defender running. I turned off my Avast AV and rebooted but made no difference.

Lugh: The folder is indexed. I turned off indexing and rebooted and made no difference. Turned it back on and rebooted and just the same. I will try a defrag and see how that goes. There is room as 59% free.