Is there a way to speed up Applications Listing?

Every time I open Finder and click on Applications, it takes 20-30 seconds until it lets me scroll through the listing because it has to redraw the icons for every application. Is there a way to cache these icons so it doesn't stall every time? Note that once the icons are drawn, I can go to another area like Downloads, and then back to Applications and it's fine, but if I close the Finder window, or reboot, I have to wait again.
-Z

PrinceZordar wrote:
I removed the .DS_Store file. Now to wait a bit to see if it helps.
Thanks!
Let us know if it helps. FWIW, I've noticed as well in Leopard that folders with large numbers of items, like Applications, definitely seem to take longer to become scrollable than they did in Tiger. In fact I have a Tiger and a Leopard machine in the same room and it's easy to see.
One thing might contribute to this. Notice that even with "Calculate all Sizes" de-selected, Leopard does something that Tiger does not- it displays the size of all application Packages (Packages are basically glorified Folders). In fact, most of your apps are probably packages nowadays anyhow. Tiger didn't bother to display the sizes of those, but Leopard does.
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