>I don't consider my cad departmet as being flawed. They access drawings from number 1 through number 25,000 daily. Archiving them would only serve to make them more inefficent. That's like saying, there are 100,000 words in the the english language that we only use occassionally so lets take them out of the dictionary. Swithcing to an abbridged dirctionary when you are use to having an unabbridged. That's not progress.
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>If anything is flawed it is XP because it is being out performed by it's predicessor (window 98). An IBM AT with an 8088 processor would list them faster running dos 2.11 As it stands now, we will be staying with windows 98 until a practical resolution is found.
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>I would appreciate any positive solutions.

You don't need to archive them, but you really should consider the benefits of breaking up the hierarchy into different categories with fewer entries in each. They could all still reside under a main folder "Drawings", with sub folder for each category underneath.