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Microsoft's plan to speed up File Explorer in Windows 11 backfires: double the RAM, still slow

Microsoft's plan to fix the slow performance of File Explorer in Windows 11 involves having the app pre-load on startup, and ...

Windows 11's updated File Explorer remains painfully slow despite using twice as much RAM

Microsoft's solution for the sluggish Windows 11 File Explorer is more of a workaround than a proper fix. To boost response times, the OS now preloads ...

Hooray, Microsoft is making File Explorer faster, but it's still slower than Windows 10 and consumes more RAM. Boo

Preloading (or pre-caching) is meant to speed up the load times of File Explorer, which have, so far, been a major downgrade ...
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Windows 11's new pre-loaded File Explorer is reportedly still slower than Windows 10

Preloading makes Windows 11 File Explorer open faster than before, at ~30MB extra RAM. Despite gains, Windows 11's preloaded Explorer still lags Windows 10's Explorer in open/close speed. That ...