Monday, April 09, 2018

How to speedup file exploerer in Windows 10

The File Explorer in Windows 10 has been terribly slow on opening and showing files in a folder with lots of files no matter on HDD or SSD. It's slower than Win 7 and even WinXP. This is because it tries to read the metadata of multimedia files (video, photo which are big files).

A simple solution is to tell it not to do so:
 1. Right-click on the folder and select "Content" or "Property".
 2. Select the "Customize" tab.
 3. In the "Optimize this folder for:", choose "General items", and tick "Also apply this template to all subfolders".

Then, you can enjoy the real high speed!

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