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Microsoft’s recent tweaks to File Explorer in Windows 11 offer a quick fix for the sluggish “cold start” many users still complain about — and there’s a one‑minute setting change that, in practice, delivers the fastest and safest improvement for most people: make File Explorer open to This PC...

Microsoft’s quiet fix for File Explorer is a rare example of a company acknowledging a persistent UX problem and shipping an opt‑in mitigation — but it only buys you half the benefit unless you also flip a setting most users don’t know about. The upshot: if you switch File Explorer’s default...

Microsoft’s latest Insider experiment for File Explorer promised to make the most‑used Windows UI surface feel faster — but early tests and community reports show the background‑preload approach trades a small, persistent RAM cost for only modest launch gains while leaving the deeper interaction...

Microsoft’s latest attempt to fix File Explorer’s long-standing sluggishness in Windows 11 — an experimental feature that preloads the app into RAM at startup — has produced predictable gains in cold-start painting but also predictable trade-offs: roughly doubling Explorer’s idle RAM footprint...

Microsoft’s recent preview tweak for File Explorer — an optional background preload that warms part of explorer.exe at boot — does exactly what it promises: the first folder open after sign-in is noticeably snappier. But the change is a pragmatic patch, not an architectural cure, and it exposes...

Microsoft's attempt to hide Explorer's lag with a background preload is a pragmatic engineering move, but independent tests show it only narrows the gap — Windows 11's preloaded File Explorer still trails Windows 10 in snappiness, and it does so while reserving roughly an extra 30–35 MB of RAM...

Microsoft has quietly begun testing a background “preload” for File Explorer in Windows 11 that keeps a lightweight portion of the application resident so the first click opens near‑instantly, and the change is shipped in Insider Preview Build 26220.7271 (KB5070307) with a user-facing toggle...

Microsoft’s experiment to “preload” File Explorer in Windows 11 is a pragmatic attempt to mask the shell’s cold‑start pause, but independent measurements show the change reserves a measurable chunk of RAM while delivering only a modest improvement in perceived launch time — a trade that matters...

Microsoft has quietly begun testing two deliberate, low‑risk experiments that aim to make File Explorer feel faster and less cluttered: an optional background preloading mechanism that warms parts of Explorer before you open it, and a reworked right‑click context menu that groups seldom‑used...

Microsoft’s quick fix for Windows 11’s notoriously sluggish File Explorer is simple: keep parts of it running in the background so folder windows open faster — and users aren’t happy about the trade-off. Background / Overview Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7271 (KB5070307) introduces an...

Windows 11 is quietly testing a background preload for File Explorer that promises to make folder windows appear almost instantly after sign‑in — an optional experiment that trades a small, predictable memory cost for a much snappier click‑to‑interactive experience. Background Since Windows 11’s...

Microsoft has quietly started pruning one of Windows 11’s most persistent irritants: the File Explorer right‑click context menu. The November Insider build 26220.7271 (KB5070307) introduces a compact, grouped menu layout — led by an experimental “Manage file” flyout and nested cloud provider...

Microsoft is quietly testing a background “preload” for File Explorer in Windows 11 Insider Preview builds — an opt-in experiment that keeps parts of explorer.exe resident to eliminate the familiar cold-start pause, promise near-instant folder opens, and reignite debates about memory, battery...

Microsoft has quietly acknowledged a long-standing irritation for many Windows users — File Explorer's first‑launch lag — and begun testing a background preload that keeps Explorer partially warm so folder windows open faster, an experiment now rolling out to Windows Insiders in Build...

Microsoft is quietly testing a blunt — and controversial — fix for File Explorer’s long-standing sluggishness: keep parts of the file manager permanently warmed and resident in memory so folders open instantly. The change arrives in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7271 and is being rolled...

Microsoft is testing a blunt but pragmatic fix for the long‑standing problem of slow File Explorer launches in Windows 11: keep a warmed‑up instance of the File Explorer UI running in the background so the moment a user asks for a window it paints instantly. The change is part of the Windows...

Microsoft is quietly changing how File Explorer starts: instead of continuing to rely on the visible window to initialize when you click an icon, Windows 11 will now optionally preload File Explorer in the background so that the app opens faster on first use — a change Microsoft is testing in...

Microsoft is quietly testing a background preloading feature for File Explorer in Windows 11 that aims to eliminate the familiar "cold start" pause and make the file manager appear ready the instant a user clicks its icon. Background File Explorer has long been a cornerstone of the Windows...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 arrives on PC with a clearly tiered set of system requirements, an enforced firmware-level anti‑cheat posture, and a timed preload window — all of which matter for anyone planning to play at launch or in the first few weeks after release. Background / Overview Beenox...

A U.S. federal judge has ordered Google to open parts of its search infrastructure to rivals and banned a range of exclusive distribution agreements, while stopping short of the dramatic breakups the Department of Justice sought — a ruling that preserves Chrome and Android in Google’s hands but...