Is there a way to stop NetBeans scanning projects?

Question

I don\'t have much memory on my PC and a pretty weak processor. Although netbeans is by far my favorite IDE it is almost unbearable to use on my present computer because of

Answer 1

In addition to creating smaller Projects for the folders you really work on and then a Project Group to group them (Mateng), you can try excluding folders that you will never work on such as images folders and so on. To ignore those folders, go to:

File > Project Properties > Ignored Folders > Add Folder...

From NetBeans Help:

The Ignored Files property is the opposite of the Include Path. These are files inside the PHP project that you want the IDE to ignore for FTP upload, scanning, etc.