Explorer slow showing folders containing PDF files

I have Windows XP SP2 and Acrobat Pro 7.0.9 on a Dell Precision
M65 about 4 months old.
Windows Explorer experiences a significant delay displaying the
contents of folders that contain large PDF files. Process Explorer
shows that during these delays explorer.exe is reading from the
disk at about 200 MByte/sec. The thread that's busy during these
delays is ntdll.dll!RtlAllocateHeap+0x18c. The duration of the
delay is proportional to the total size of the PDF files in the
directory. If I rename these files to have, say, .doc extension
instead of .pdf then the delay disappears. The delay to display a
folder containing 300 MByte of PDF files is about 25 seconds.
Enough to be really annoying.
In ShellExView I tried disabling all non-Microsoft extensions,
including several Adobe Acrobat related extensions. Made no odds.
Any suggestions?

I see exactly the same thing, but I suspect this is partly a Windows issue. I completely uninstalled all the adobe products from my machine (Acro reader, acrobat pro 7.0.9, FrameMaker 7.2) such that the pdf file associations were gone, and it still takes forever to list the files. Of course, there could still be some remnants lurking in the system that uninstalling didn't take care of.
My workaround was to change the .pdf extension to .mypdf and then associate that extension with Acrobat reader 8.0. The folder contents now update very quickly (as they should) and I can open them with the correct Adobe product. I just have to remember to change the extension back to .pdf if/when I email a file to someone else.
Still, would be nice to not have to work around this.

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