?does having a lot of the favourits, in the list slow down your pc when web pages load..tia.col.

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?does having a lot of the favourits, in the list slow down your pc when web pages load..tia.col.

Not at all. However, if your system is infected with viruses/spyware it can definitely affect the behavior of IE or your favorite browser. Why are you asking? Have you seen a noticeable slow down with IE? If so, have you tried clearing your TIF (temporary internet folder) cache?

yes chewy have cleaned out temp files from disc cleanup but still find pages loading slow have run adaware2007 spybot no spyware have cable i dont no why thanks col.

The only way that list could slow down a computer is if the list had to be frequently scanned by the OS. That is not the case, the list is merely a list of URL's that you only select one of when you wish to revisit a site.

shelly thank you now i no.col.

How many is "a lot"?


If you happened to have 1000's, then it would be inefficient in many respects.

Inefficient in that the files are tiny, yet each will occupy one cluster, so lots of "slack" space.

And above a certain number of files in a single directory, I don't recall exactly, but perhaps >2000 or so, reading that directory becomes less efficient.

That is the reason that MS eventually changed from a single TIF (Temporary Internet Files) directory to a single "virtual" directory structure, made up of multiple (with usually a minimum of 4) subdirectories.

Also, even though you are only reading a single "favorite", you still have to open & read all the directory entries to get to read that single favorite. If you virus scanner is set to scan "all files", it to will then inspect each of those favorites.



Some information is given here, but only in a general way. See the section under, "Optimizing NTFS Performance".
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457112.aspx

Maybe I'm not exactly right in relation to NTFS file system, but I believe the basic idea is still accurate.


Found this on TIF:

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With the latest release of Internet Explorer
<and they're talking about IE4, but as we know IE7 is virtually the same>
and the Internet SDK,
it is expected that many different programs will take advantage of
the caching support provided. This means that there could be
thousands of URLs downloaded and kept in the cache.

Having thousands of URLs cached into a single directory causes
performance to degrade on computers running Windows 98, which uses
the FAT file system. There are two primary reasons:

- There is a linear search algorithm in FAT to look up a directory
entry.

- The in-memory structure of the directory entry caching used by
FAT does not work by directory but by individual file, causing
it to access the disk more often.

This is the main reason there are multiple directories in the
cache. Internet Explorer directs each URL into one of the multiple
directories (buckets), where the downloaded data is kept in the
form of a file. An index entry is created in the index file(s)
in that directory.

Temporary Internet Files