Depending on your configuration, when you hover your mouse over a folder in Windows Vista Explorer, Windows Vista calculates and displays the size of files and folders contained underneath in a popup folder tip. Note that for folders containing a large number of files, Windows will only spend a limited amount of time performing this calculation, giving up and just saying the folder is "larger than" a certain amount of Mb, Gb, or Tb.

Many people appreciate this convenience. However, others would rather disable this feature to reduce CPU and hard drive usage when navigating folders in Explorer. Thus, this option can be disabled:

1. Do one of the following:

* Click on the "Organize" button in an Explorer folder, and then choose "Folder and Search Options".

* Open a folder in Explorer. Press the ALT key to temporarily show the menu, and then select "Tools" - "Folder Options".

* Click the Windows/Start button, type "folder options", and press ENTER.

2. When the "Folder Options" multi-tabbed dialog box appears, click the "View" tab.


3. Check or uncheck "Display file size information in folder tips" as desired.

4. Click "OK" to close the dialog box.

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