Slow File Associations clicking on a folder containing jpegs

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I have a problem with the slow association of jpegs with Adobe Photoshop 7.0 under Windows XP Professional.

I have a folder containing about 100 1mb jpegs. When clicking on the folder, each file icon is initially set to unassociated. It then very slowly sets the correct association for each file with Photoshop. Trying to click away from this folder can cause Explorer to crash. The machine (Shuttle SN41G2V2) has 1Gb (128Mb of which shared graphics on motherboard) with an AMD Athlon XP 3000, so I don't think that this is the problem. Indeed, on my old machine (A 400Mhz PII with 384 Mb also running Windows XP Professional), this worked fine. Setting the folder to display thumbnails makes the problem even worse.

Has anybody else experienced this problem? Any suggestions gratefully received.

Thanks
 

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