I have the Product Version column visible by default in all of my Listers. However, when I have a lot of files (.exe, .dll, any files with product version information in them) in a folder, Directory Opus gets very slow showing the contents of that folder.
Is there a way to:
❶ make Directory Opus only populate the Product Version column if an activation key/hotkey is pressed when entering a folder?
or...
❷ If I entered a folder without populating the contents of the Product Version column (meaning, I didn't press an activation key when I entered the folder), is there a way to refresh the folder's contents and make the Lister also populate the Product Version column? Thank you.
The slowdown is likely caused by an antivirus scanner, given the type of files being opened and that it is done on a background thread, and also that reading version resources should normally take a trivial amount of time and require only a few bytes of data to be read from each file.
The a/v scanner is likely blocking all fileystem access on all threads in the process while it scans the exe/dll files that are being opened, if that is happening. (Have seen that in a few instances, at least.)
Rather than show the column all the time and populate it when you push a button, why not remove the column and have a button which adds it? Having it there but empty just wastes screen space.
Do you mean, create a toolbar button that adds the Product Version column when pressed? Maybe make the button toggle the Product Version column on and off? I don't know how to do that. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Leo.