Quote:File Explorer is the main file manager of the Windows operating system. Previously called Windows Explorer, Microsoft renamed the tool and has modified it significantly in the past decade. From adding a new recommended section and a dual-context menu, to advertisement and sprinkling light doses of AI functionality on top of the ever-growing application.

In the latest Insider build of Windows 11 that Microsoft released, the company admitted something that it usually does not: that a component in Windows lacked in the performance department.

Here in particular, Microsoft confessed that File Explorer launch performance was sub-par and that it is introducing preloading of File Explorer to address the issue.

Note that this has nothing to do with select folders opening slowly in File Explorer. There is a tweak that you may apply to speed that up, but it is independent from what Microsoft is trying to fix and introducing.

This should not be visible to users, according to Microsoft, but it is too early for a final verdict on the change. It is introduced in a beta build after all and that means that most of the testing happens on user devices after all.

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