Photoshop Filebrowser really slow

Maybe you can use windows explorer?

"I finally found the fix when looking around a Windows 2000 support forum, although the problem isn't relative to Windows itself. It seems that if you have a fresh install of Photoshop CS (versus an update), you lose a particular DLL file named psicon.dll (why Photoshop chose to remove this feature doesn't make sense). You can download the DLL file from:

http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files.php/dllfiles/P/psicon.dll/download.html

And then place the DLL in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\ and it should start previewing again. For some odd reason, I noticed that I didn't have a shell folder in that Adobe folder, but I did in my backup folder, so I just copied the shell folder for 6.0 in my backup to the new area. And now I can see my PSD files like normal again. Hope this helps anyone else with the same problem."

full post here: http://forums.invisionpower.com/lofiversion/index.php/t187931.html

dont know if this will help ya at all...

Thanks, but I see the psd files, no problem.

Just browsing through folders with psd files is very slow.

Thanks
Su

Thanks,

that already did quite a bit for me. Do you know if this issue has been (partly) fixed in CS2?

Su

Thanks for the grade.

The psicon.dll problem refers to seeing a preview of the image in the windows browser. When you save a photoshop psd file, you have a checkbox on the "save as" dialogue box that says "thumbnail." With this checked, the photoshop icon would be replaced with a thumbnail of your image, and when you select a psd file in windows explorer a thumbnail version of the image would show in the info box.
Photoshop uses psicon.dll to make these thumbnails. For some reason that Adobe has never stated, they stopped shipping the psicon.dll with the CS versions. Talk on the web says that it was causing problems, but Adobe doesn't apologize and they don't explain. They only acknowledge that it is not there: http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/327459.html

As for the "issue" being fixed, I'm not sure that Adobe sees it as an issue. With CS and CSII they started pushing Photo Bridge as a file browsing alternative, although it is much more buggy and making a lot of power users angry. No one knows what direction the next version will take.

For whatever reason this does not work on my machine. I see a greyed out but checked 'Save as Thumbnail' in the dialog box, but still the psd icon shows, even after copying the psicon.dll into the shell folder and restarting...

> For whatever reason this does not work on my machine.

I'll bet you are using CS or CS2 and what's more, I'll bet that if you do a search of your computer, you will not find a copy of psicon.dll

I used the suggestion above from Rookie and downloaded it...

http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files.php/dllfiles/P/psicon.dll/download.html

Okay, no taking back points because this is technically an new q

Okay, no taking back points because this is technically an new question. I goofed and didn't research my second answer thourally.

Use this link to get your thumbnails back, but read the warning first!

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/12/13/adobe-cs2-and-the-case-of-the-disappearing-thumbnails/

BTW, I do have problems with my computer at work leaving files and folders open after I have closed them in Photoshop. I have to reboot the machine in order to rename a file or throw it away.

(I use Windows NT at work, No problems with my win 2K system at home.)

I don't know if it is related to the problems with psicon.dll but I will be looking into it.

Update (sorry for all of the emails that these posts are generating)
I used the above downloads, placed the dlls in their proper folders, ran the registry updates, and nothing happened. I rebooted and again, nothing. I too have the grayed out thumbnail check box and no preview icons.

I'll go ahead and post it as a question and we will see if some other experts have insight

Let me know the thread...

By the way, the disabling of thumbnail views in that article relate to windows explorer, correct?
Thanks
Su