How to speed up File Explorer in Windows 11
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All you need to do to earn yourself a faster, more responsive version of File Explorer is to flick it into full-screen mode and back to normal windowed mode again. This means just pressing F11 twice -- or Fn + F11 in some cases. Please share this with all your friends having Windows 11. Will be doing more testing, but this is like magic. UPDATE: Tested on large number of photos/files on a ext hdd and its 100% faster performance than normal (non ssd) / ssd much faster)
Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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All you need to do to earn yourself a faster, more responsive version of File Explorer is to flick it into full-screen mode and back to normal windowed mode again. This means just pressing F11 twice -- or Fn + F11 in some cases. Please share this with all your friends having Windows 11. Will be doing more testing, but this is like magic. UPDATE: Tested on large number of photos/files on a ext hdd and its 100% faster performance than normal (non ssd) / ssd much faster)
Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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All you need to do to earn yourself a faster, more responsive version of File Explorer is to flick it into full-screen mode and back to normal windowed mode again. This means just pressing F11 twice -- or Fn + F11 in some cases. Please share this with all your friends having Windows 11. Will be doing more testing, but this is like magic. UPDATE: Tested on large number of photos/files on a ext hdd and its 100% faster performance than normal (non ssd) / ssd much faster)
Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
Thought I'd seen this before... The Insider News[^]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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All you need to do to earn yourself a faster, more responsive version of File Explorer is to flick it into full-screen mode and back to normal windowed mode again. This means just pressing F11 twice -- or Fn + F11 in some cases. Please share this with all your friends having Windows 11. Will be doing more testing, but this is like magic. UPDATE: Tested on large number of photos/files on a ext hdd and its 100% faster performance than normal (non ssd) / ssd much faster)
Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
Go Microsoft! :~ :rolleyes:
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All you need to do to earn yourself a faster, more responsive version of File Explorer is to flick it into full-screen mode and back to normal windowed mode again. This means just pressing F11 twice -- or Fn + F11 in some cases. Please share this with all your friends having Windows 11. Will be doing more testing, but this is like magic. UPDATE: Tested on large number of photos/files on a ext hdd and its 100% faster performance than normal (non ssd) / ssd much faster)
Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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All you need to do to earn yourself a faster, more responsive version of File Explorer is to flick it into full-screen mode and back to normal windowed mode again. This means just pressing F11 twice -- or Fn + F11 in some cases. Please share this with all your friends having Windows 11. Will be doing more testing, but this is like magic. UPDATE: Tested on large number of photos/files on a ext hdd and its 100% faster performance than normal (non ssd) / ssd much faster)
Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
I once worked with an OS where compilations went faster if you rested your finger on the space bar (or really: any key). The priority logic said that the highest priority should be given to interactive users, to ensure e.g. echoing keyboard input on the screen as quick as possible. If a user process had been cpu bound for more than couple seconds (compilation of even moderately sized programs might take half a minute in those days), its priority was lowered to give preference to those actively typing a their keyboard. Once you hit a key, your process was raised to interactive priority, and let your lengthy compilation ahead of all other cpu bound processes. At least this worked until all the users had learned the trick, so that all lengthy compilations were competing for resources at interactive priority. This was fixed in the OS once all the students at my University had learned the trick, but I do not exactly know what they did. The trick stopped working when a new OS version was installed.
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Don't worry, it'll be fixed in the next update... (as in, you'll no longer be able to do this to speed it up)
dandy72 wrote:
(as in, you'll no longer be able to do this to speed it up at all)
FTFY
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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the whole windows explorer, i think it starts to allocate more paging/memory and i/o hence... try it out if you have large set of images ,thumbnail rendering ... and cpu utilization...all much better...working with large number of images /pdf/ was a pain ,you had to switch to third party explorers...
Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Thought I'd seen this before... The Insider News[^]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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All you need to do to earn yourself a faster, more responsive version of File Explorer is to flick it into full-screen mode and back to normal windowed mode again. This means just pressing F11 twice -- or Fn + F11 in some cases. Please share this with all your friends having Windows 11. Will be doing more testing, but this is like magic. UPDATE: Tested on large number of photos/files on a ext hdd and its 100% faster performance than normal (non ssd) / ssd much faster)
Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
F 11. How appropriate!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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dandy72 wrote:
(as in, you'll no longer be able to do this to speed it up at all)
FTFY
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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dandy72 wrote:
This must not be your first dealing with Microsoft. :)
No... sadly not... :sigh: Although the worst dealings were actually with OEM Windows and Corporate Support / HelpDesk more than with private Windows
dandy72 wrote:
Even more cynical than I am...
That's by design :rolleyes: :-D
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
