TortoiseCVS seems to slow down Windows Explorer. What can I do?
CVS wasn’t originally designed to provide file status information for large amounts of files in minimal time, so TortoiseCVS has to do quite a bit of work before it can tell Explorer which overlay icons to display and what to write in the additional CVS columns in case they’re enabled. We recommend that you generally disable TortoiseCVS for as many folders as possible. You probably only need TortoiseCVS’s features for a few sandbox folders on your PC, so there is no point in having it turned on for the remaining folders, thereby decreasing overall system performance: • You can disable TortoiseCVS for removable drives and network shares in Preferences → Policy. (This is already disabled by default). • You can exclude additional folders in Preferences → Advanced, or even better selectively include only the folders that actually contain CVS-controlled files. For example, set “Included folders” to “C:\mysandbox1;D:\mysandbox2” to selectively enable TortoiseCVS only for those folders (and s
