The Windows file manager slows down when accessing directories.
The Windows file manager slows down when accessing directories.
I've grown tired of Sadya Nutella's Windows 11 Explorer. Big folders load fast but then everything resets and locks you out, forcing it to recheck each item slowly while displaying that annoying green progress bar in the address bar. It feels like a glitch or a design flaw, especially when you're under pressure or need quick access. This isn't the same as Windows 7, and it's frustrating.
Windows 11 is built for and works best with SSDs and eMMC storage. Other disk types are often required to meet its system needs, unless a special HDD technology emerges. This explains why most laptops today don’t use traditional HDDs as main drives—your drive might be fragmented or you have a network shortcut instead.
Usual. A brief reference to hard drive actuators and that’s all you focus on like a group of uninformed wasps, assuming it’s always HDD. Overlooking the point that the question wasn’t about HDDs at all—applicable to SSDs just as much. Don’t waste time arguing about symlinks or network shares; it’s completely irrelevant. Stop the nonsense and save your energy.