diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HetznerImportScreen.axaml b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HetznerImportScreen.axaml
index 95df545..5f178fe 100644
--- a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HetznerImportScreen.axaml
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HetznerImportScreen.axaml
@@ -253,8 +253,20 @@
               </Grid>
             </Border>
 
-            <ScrollViewer Grid.Row="1">
-              <ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding Rows}" Margin="12,8">
+            <!-- Virtualised, for an inventory of hundreds of machines: see the transfer queue's own note. -->
+            <ItemsControl Grid.Row="1" ItemsSource="{Binding Rows}">
+              <ItemsControl.Template>
+                <ControlTemplate>
+                  <ScrollViewer>
+                    <ItemsPresenter Name="PART_ItemsPresenter" ItemsPanel="{TemplateBinding ItemsPanel}" Margin="12,8" />
+                  </ScrollViewer>
+                </ControlTemplate>
+              </ItemsControl.Template>
+              <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
+                <ItemsPanelTemplate>
+                  <VirtualizingStackPanel />
+                </ItemsPanelTemplate>
+              </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
                 <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
                   <DataTemplate x:DataType="vm:HetznerRowViewModel">
                     <Border Classes="importrow" CornerRadius="8">
@@ -290,8 +302,7 @@
                     </Border>
                   </DataTemplate>
                 </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
-              </ItemsControl>
-            </ScrollViewer>
+            </ItemsControl>
 
           </Grid>
         </Border>
diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ImportScreen.axaml b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ImportScreen.axaml
index 6c0c2d1..1ac75d7 100644
--- a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ImportScreen.axaml
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ImportScreen.axaml
@@ -131,8 +131,20 @@
           </Grid>
         </Border>
 
-        <ScrollViewer Grid.Row="1">
-          <ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding Rows}" Margin="12,8">
+        <!-- Virtualised, for an inventory of hundreds of machines: see the transfer queue's own note. -->
+        <ItemsControl Grid.Row="1" ItemsSource="{Binding Rows}">
+          <ItemsControl.Template>
+            <ControlTemplate>
+              <ScrollViewer>
+                <ItemsPresenter Name="PART_ItemsPresenter" ItemsPanel="{TemplateBinding ItemsPanel}" Margin="12,8" />
+              </ScrollViewer>
+            </ControlTemplate>
+          </ItemsControl.Template>
+          <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
+            <ItemsPanelTemplate>
+              <VirtualizingStackPanel />
+            </ItemsPanelTemplate>
+          </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
             <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
               <DataTemplate x:DataType="vm:ImportRowViewModel">
                 <Border Classes="importrow" CornerRadius="8">
@@ -161,8 +173,7 @@
                 </Border>
               </DataTemplate>
             </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
-          </ItemsControl>
-        </ScrollViewer>
+        </ItemsControl>
 
       </Grid>
     </Border>
diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/TransfersScreen.axaml b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/TransfersScreen.axaml
index 9ad0e66..34b3ee6 100644
--- a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/TransfersScreen.axaml
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/TransfersScreen.axaml
@@ -1190,8 +1190,24 @@
                      Text="{Binding Status}" IsVisible="{Binding IsConnected}" />
         </Grid>
 
-        <ScrollViewer Grid.Row="2">
-          <ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding Transfers}">
+        <!--
+          Virtualised: a folder download queues a row per file, and a stack panel inside an outer scroller
+          laid out and drew every one of them, thousands deep. The scroller is the control's own so the panel
+          knows the viewport it has to fill and realises only those rows.
+        -->
+        <ItemsControl Grid.Row="2" ItemsSource="{Binding Transfers}">
+            <ItemsControl.Template>
+              <ControlTemplate>
+                <ScrollViewer>
+                  <ItemsPresenter Name="PART_ItemsPresenter" ItemsPanel="{TemplateBinding ItemsPanel}" />
+                </ScrollViewer>
+              </ControlTemplate>
+            </ItemsControl.Template>
+            <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
+              <ItemsPanelTemplate>
+                <VirtualizingStackPanel />
+              </ItemsPanelTemplate>
+            </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
             <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
               <DataTemplate x:DataType="vm:TransferRowViewModel">
                 <!--
@@ -1239,7 +1255,6 @@
               </DataTemplate>
             </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
           </ItemsControl>
-        </ScrollViewer>
 
         <Button Grid.Row="3" Classes="ghost" Content="CLEAR FINISHED" Margin="0,10,0,0"
                 HorizontalAlignment="Left" Command="{Binding ClearCompletedCommand}" />
diff --git a/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ScreenLayoutTests.cs b/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ScreenLayoutTests.cs
index 8489a56..3d9ea12 100644
--- a/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ScreenLayoutTests.cs
+++ b/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ScreenLayoutTests.cs
@@ -1386,6 +1386,48 @@ public sealed class ScreenLayoutTests : IAsyncLifetime
         await MeasureTransfersAsync(faults => faults.ShouldBeEmpty());
     }
 
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// A folder download queues a row per file. The queue was a plain stack inside an outer scroller, which
+    /// measured and drew every row however deep — so the number of rows built here is the claim, not the
+    /// layout: a few screens' worth out of two thousand.
+    /// </remarks>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ADeepQueue_BuildsOnlyTheRowsOnScreen()
+    {
+        transfers.IsConnected = true;
+
+        for (var file = 0; file < 2000; file++)
+        {
+            Enqueue(TransferDirection.Download, $"asset-{file:0000}.png", 4096, 0, TransferState.Queued);
+        }
+
+        await LayoutHarness.OnTheUiThreadAsync(
+            () =>
+            {
+                var screen = new TransfersScreen { DataContext = transfers };
+
+                var window = LayoutHarness.HostAtMinimumSize(
+                    screen,
+                    LayoutHarness.SessionScreenWidth(transfers.IsConnected),
+                    LayoutHarness.SessionScreenHeight);
+
+                try
+                {
+                    var built = screen.GetVisualDescendants()
+                        .OfType<ProgressBar>()
+                        .Count(bar => bar.Classes.Contains("transferbar"));
+
+                    built.ShouldBeGreaterThan(0, "the rows on screen are still drawn");
+                    built.ShouldBeLessThan(200, "the rest of the two thousand are not");
+                }
+                finally
+                {
+                    window.Close();
+                }
+            },
+            Token);
+    }
+
     /// <remarks>
     /// The edit strip, which shares the questions' Grid row and is the tallest thing that can be in it: a
     /// heading, a path, a scrolling log of saves, the conflict card and a button. Its log is bounded for the
@@ -1632,11 +1674,24 @@ public sealed class ScreenLayoutTests : IAsyncLifetime
 
                 try
                 {
-                    var words = screen.GetVisualDescendants()
-                        .OfType<TextBlock>()
-                        .Where(text => text.Classes.Contains("transferstatus"))
-                        .Select(text => text.Text ?? string.Empty)
-                        .ToList();
+                    // Row by row, scrolled to: the queue is virtualised, so a row off the bottom of the strip is
+                    // not built until it is scrolled to — see ADeepQueue_BuildsOnlyTheRowsOnScreen.
+                    var queue = screen.GetVisualDescendants().OfType<ItemsControl>()
+                        .First(control => ReferenceEquals(control.ItemsSource, transfers.Transfers));
+
+                    var words = new List<string>();
+
+                    for (var row = 0; row < expected.Length; row++)
+                    {
+                        queue.ScrollIntoView(row);
+                        window.UpdateLayout();
+
+                        words.Add(queue.ContainerFromIndex(row).ShouldNotBeNull()
+                            .GetVisualDescendants()
+                            .OfType<TextBlock>()
+                            .Single(text => text.Classes.Contains("transferstatus"))
+                            .Text ?? string.Empty);
+                    }
 
                     words.ShouldBe(expected);
                 }