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Why does File Explorer freeze just because I opened it?!?
Every time???
How do they mess this up so bad?
I went back to Win10 at work because file explorer on Win11 was unusable. I'm not waiting a half second every single time I enter a subfolder.
and even worse in a OneDrive directory, often a full two seconds
that wasn't the only issue, but it legitimately prevented me from being able to do my job, because I needed to be able to multitask on several projects at once. what used to be a two minute turnaround on a question somebody would ask me became hours, simply because I could not navigate to a directory in fifteen seconds and check a file quickly. and oh god the file explorer crashes
unfortunately I still deal with a bunch of that on Win10 now, because they somehow introduced that behaviour with greater frequency into Win10 in the past year
I have that problem on my son's pc. It's definitely an io issue. A faster disk would solve the problem.
lol that's not the issue here
that can give you the same symptoms, but the tiniest bit of troubleshooting proves that that is not the scenario I have
Could be, my kids have identical pc's, but the disks are different. One has a slower ssd and its symptoms are exactly how you described, I knew it was slower but it's all I had around. Both pc's have SATA ssds. We're saving for new disks, which I'm sure will alleviate the symptoms.
At work a similar problem with Windows server. The hosting company changed the IO tier and like snow these issues disappeared. Clicking start and waiting for it to open would take a minute, completely unacceptable, but ultimately fixed by having faster storage.
I'm not saying Microsoft is doing good work, I'm suggesting a workaround until they do, which we both know is very probably never.
They already pushed out older hardware with Windows 11, they won't care about slower storage options.