Mirek,

OK, now I can see it: I have a shortcut (link) on my desktop to an exe file on my server. So, the shortcut ("program1.exe - shortcut.lnk") points to "\\nas\share\program.exe". When I open FileSel, this causes the enormous CPU loading for quite some time.

If I map the \\nas\share to a network drive s: and change the shortcut to point to s:\program.exe, then the scanning proceeds much faster, just in a couple of seconds of CPU core domination.

How about making exe file icon loading optional through user configurable flag, such as: FileSel& LoadExeFileIcons(bool f); ?

BTW: Is it essential to load icons for network files at all?

Best regards,

Tom