Avoid Windows Explorer to load complete executable file

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Published on 2009-10-02T07:48:34Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 9:51 UTC
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On Windows Vista, when browsing to a network folder containing executables, Windows Explorer seems to load all the files completely just to be able to show the executable icon (the resource monitor indicates loads of traffic during the loading of the directory)

On XP only a part of the file is loaded.

Is there a way to avoid the complete loading of these files?

Note that disabling my anti virus does not help.

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