Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

I finally figured out why sometimes it takes like 7 seconds to open up a damn jpeg in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer!

Ok I didn't figure it out myself but Googling yielded a post from a forum that contained a solution. Whenever there is a broken shortcut, ie. to a file/folder that's no longer there, a network drive that is currently offline, etc., Windows Picture and Fax Viewer will choke for a few seconds. What it is doing is that it's trying to test if the broken link is a picture to see if it needs to add it to the slideshow. Brilliant programming by Microsoft yet again!