Those little thumbnail graphics that come up when you go to
your file, open, menu, and move your mouse over the list of
recently opened documents. Is it possible to shut the thumbnail
graphics off? I believe my computer is hanging on the
thumbnails.
Are you talking of the 'show thumbnail graphics in windows
explorer'? This isn't what I'm reffering to. The thumbnails in SW
when you go to your file, open, menu for recently browsed
documents.
I don't have a direct answer, but I presume you are talking
about SW2008, and you are talking about the popups when you go to
the File menu and hover over the recently used list at the bottom,
not the File/Open dialog box.
To test something, try using the new "R" hotkey to bring up the
Recent Documents box and pick from there. See if that changes
anything in how the machines behaves.
The only problem with the hotkey to bring up the recent
documents box, is that it isn't available when you first open SW.
This is when my problem was occuring. It could be I'm just not
patient enough when I first turn on my computer and SW, that my
computer is still booting when I start SW, and that it just has a
hard time displaying those thumbnail graphics, which is why I would
like to shut them off. Less fluff, more work please.
The 'R' shortcut is available immediately when I open SW2008.
Sounds like you have something else running in the background or
you are just not allowing enough time for the OS to fully boot.
Are other programs doing an auto-update?
So far I have found SP3 has been much snappier on my machine. The
Design Library folders used to take about 7 seconds to open; now
they open instantly. The HW used to take about 30 seconds, now it's
about 5.
You may want to check that "R" isn't set to a different
function in your hot key list. The "R" is available to me as soon
as I start Solidworks. I use it every time to open
documents.
I think I just wasn't being patient enough and not letting my
OS boot up completely. I still can't get the shortcut for browse
documents to work when I first start SW, even after waiting for a
few minutes. After I open a part, drawing, etc, and close all
documents, the shortcut will work without any documents open, but
not at initial SW start up. Thanks for your suggestions.
I have a bit of a different issue with this feature. When I
hover over some items, the preview balloon show up to the right
hand side, other times it goes left and obscures the list I am
trying to hover over...
If there is a way to disable this function, I would like to know
it.
In the File > Open dialog box, there is a checkbox in the
upper right corner that says "Thumbnail." Unchecking this will turn
off the display of thumbnail graphics in the right side of the
dialog box, but not in the Explorer browser.
I meant the pull down file menu, not the dialog box. It'd still be
nice to be given the option to shut the thumbnail graphics off in
the file pull down menu also. Give the user an option!
I just built a new system and had SolidWorks do the same thing
on 1st Startup/Reboot. Found out (through another forum) the Nero
Software that was included with my DVD Burner put an executable
into the boot sequence that caused SolidWorks to hang. Once I
turned it off in MSCONFIG, the machine (and SW-2008 v.3.1) has run
fine.
You may want to check and see what programs are loading upon reboot
through MSConfig, and try shutting off the ones you know are not
critical to basic system function. Good luck!
This solution works also for me, SW starts up now
correctly!
I do have the checkbox you mentioned unchecked.
To test something, try using the new "R" hotkey to bring up the Recent Documents box and pick from there. See if that changes anything in how the machines behaves.
WT
Yes, I was talking about 2008, sorry, forgot to mention that. I'll try your suggestion and see if it works.
Sounds like you have something else running in the background or you are just not allowing enough time for the OS to fully boot.
Are other programs doing an auto-update?
So far I have found SP3 has been much snappier on my machine. The Design Library folders used to take about 7 seconds to open; now they open instantly. The HW used to take about 30 seconds, now it's about 5.
If there is a way to disable this function, I would like to know it.
Thank you.
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I meant the pull down file menu, not the dialog box. It'd still be nice to be given the option to shut the thumbnail graphics off in the file pull down menu also. Give the user an option!
Do you have Nero Software installed?
I found the following in another thread:
This solution works also for me, SW starts up now correctly!