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Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost
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What the headline doesn't say: It tested nearly double as slow as Windows 10's File Explorer with this RAM usage increase.
Windows is getting worse. Not better.
I'll never understand why file explorers are so resource intensive and so slow. they're getting a list of file names, maybe pulling a thumbnail from cache. they don't need to read the metadata of every file in the folder you're looking at, certainly not before displaying a list of files.
macos finder is even worse. i am often pausing for multiple seconds at the "file -> open" dialog
I would like to use a file explorer which tries to be as lightweight as "ls -lF"
Microsoft: "What was that? You want CoPilot integrated so it can search through your files for data mining.....I mean helping you find stuff?"
imagine using a cloud-based AI to do the same thing as mlocated