Fix slow My Computer loading with Tortoise SVN settings

Have you noticed that on any machine where you have Tortoise SVN installed, when you click My Computer it seems to think about it for a while before showing you the drives available?

This can be explained by the default settings in Tortoise for icon overlays. You know those pretty little icons it puts on all your files in a version tracked folder? Well, as Tortoise is a shell extension it checks to see what icon overlay to put on all files displayed, whether they are in a version controlled folder or not.

The fix is simple and fast. Right click in any folder and navigate to TortoiseSVN --> Settings 

Then in the Icon Overlays section setup your Exclude and Include paths. A good solution is to put * for you exclude path to exclude all folders, and then specifically add your version controlled folders to the include paths.

As Tortoise is a shell extension, a reboot will give you the best results. After that your non-version controlled folders should start loading up a whole lot faster!