Often, when I do something that requires a program to access the folder structure, such as an "attach," the system responds incredibly slowly. It might take a minute or more, during which it shows as non-responding. This mainly occurs with several web browsers, including Edge and FF). My sense it has occurred with other programs, but I currently can’t be sure. But since it is more than one program, I would assume it is not a problem with the programs, but with Windows. It's not always that slow, but almost always it's not as "zippy" as it used to be. Otherwise, performance is not noticeably problematic. This started maybe six months ago.
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The thread discusses a recurring issue where accessing folder structures causes significant slowdowns, particularly affecting browsers like Edge and Firefox, which started about six months prior. Suggestions from other users include restarting Windows Explorer to potentially improve performance and temporarily disabling antivirus software to identify if it’s causing the delays. Overall, users are troubleshooting common system or software-related causes for the performance slowdown.
The thread discusses a recurring issue where accessing folder structures causes significant slowdowns, particularly affecting browsers like Edge and Firefox, which started about six months prior. Suggestions from other users include restarting Windows Explorer to potentially improve performance and temporarily disabling antivirus software to identify if it’s causing the delays. Overall, users are troubleshooting common system or software-related causes for the performance slowdown.
Solution
Have you tried restarting explorer.exe? This can be done via Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc) by clicking "Windows Explorer" while having the File Explorer open and then clicking "Restart"