# Windows Explorer "Green Ribbon" vs dOpus hassle-free?
**URL:** https://resource.dopus.com/t/windows-explorer-green-ribbon-vs-dopus-hassle-free/13954
**Category:** Help & Support
**Created:** [September 20, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/windows-explorer-green-ribbon-vs-dopus-hassle-free/13954 "2012-09-20T02:54:25Z")
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### Author:  [@happydog](https://resource.dopus.com/u/happydog)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/windows-explorer-green-ribbon-vs-dopus-hassle-free/13954/1 "2012-09-20T02:54:25Z")
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rig: Windows 7 Pro 32 bit, 2 GB RAM Toshiba M65 Satellite Laptop (mid-2006)
I open a 2.67 GB directory with 1,977 files & 75 folders, mainly pdfs :
In Windows Explorer (w/ Quizo Tab Bar 1.5.0.0 beta 2\_Paul.Accusiano on or off-doesn't matter),
the green ribbon crawls across the title bar,
and the scroll bar is definitely restrained as I pull down on it to see towards the bottom
of the directory window, & that scroll bar will rebound in a superior direction when released --
until the damn green snake is through discovering what lives in this directory.
Then both the scroll bar, as well as mouse wheel scrolling, will resume w/ normal speed -
which for me, is never fast enough anyways!
and believe me - I have Services trimmed, every good (not quirky) registry/hover/menu delay tweak employed, etc
"Always show icons never thumbnails" ; uncheck "Show Preview Handlers in Preview Pane" ;
even installed ExplorerView - "Disallow Explorer to Auto-Detect window contents" ; completely disable Windows Indexing & Search --
help me here - did I miss anything ?
\*\* Open the same directory in dOpus -- after a reboot so that dOpus isn't hitchhiking
on any kind of caching previously performed courtesy of Windows
(I'm ignorant & superstitious - maybe this isn't necessary?),
and bada-bing bada-boom! no hesitations -- scroll-pull or scroll-wheel w/ abandon,
go ahead & hover-click-delete-copy-paste-move or hover-F2 rename -- WHATEVER !!
and dOpus has already handled the situation flawlessly -
even made me a cup of tea & fetched the morning paper 😉
so - why this is? do the "Amiga-Kings" just make better use of hidden/undocumented APIs
better than old Cutler even wrote 'em?
better than any current-gen MS whizkids can do?
I'm really really curious.
Today was the first day I went over 8 hours without opening Windows Explorer --
I know, I know, I should already completely trust the Opus ... but ....
you know how some of us is a little thicker than others.
teehee - this is almost like a strange I.T. version of a 12-step "one-day-at-a-time" -
gradually weaning meself off the insane dependencies of the native O.S.
heck, I even devoted several hours to experimenting w/ the Find window of the Utility Bar -
works good enough to maybe just get me to give up my Rick Downes' XP Tools " x-file/x-find " would be the final straw !
(still, I don't mind running FileLocator Pro separately when I need to)
Will look forward to a semi-technical explanation, thanks much.
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### Author:  [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2012, 10:11am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/windows-explorer-green-ribbon-vs-dopus-hassle-free/13954/2 "2012-09-20T10:11:05Z")
We don't have access to the Explorer source code so when Explorer is misbehaving your guess is as good as ours. 🙂