From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2006-07-10, eljainc  wrote:   
   > ....   
   > FindFirst(MyPath+'*.TIF',Anyfile,SRec);   
   >   
   > When this routine is run under Windows XP, the FindFirst command is   
   > really slowing down the whole PC.   
      
   It probably already caches the whole dir. FS implementation, not much you   
   can do. Also how do you measure "slowing down the whole PC"?   
      
   Moreover this kind of stuff is filesystem dependant, is it on FAT32 or NTFS?   
      
   >I need to check the presence of a TIF   
   > file to decide whether to do further processing.  Is there a faster   
   > implementation of FindFirst available?  Or is there another way around   
   > my problem?  This routine gets called about every second or two.   
      
   Using the winapi you can have an event sent when a dir on a NTFS fs changes,   
   maybe a small win32 console app/services that somehow signals the BP app?   
      
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