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Early tests: Windows 11 File Explorer preloading flops
Windows 11 File Explorer preloading fails to speed up vs Windows 10
Early tests: Windows 11 File Explorer preloading flops
Early tests find Windows 11's File Explorer preloading brings no speed boost versus Windows 10 and consumes 35 MB of RAM, raising doubts about its payoff.
2025-12-01T15:45:56+03:00
2025-12-01T15:45:56+03:00
2025-12-01T15:45:56+03:00
Microsoft has tried to speed up Windows 11 by adding a preloading mechanism to File Explorer, but early tests suggest the change brings no noticeable boost. Windows Latest journalist Abidjit MB compared how the file manager behaves in Windows 10 and Windows 11.Microsoft had recently said the preloading feature should improve interface responsiveness and make File Explorer windows open faster. Yet trials on two virtual machines pointed the other way: there was no real acceleration, and the feature itself occupied about 35 MB of RAM.Even with preloading enabled, the Windows 11 File Explorer still doesn’t run as smoothly as many would hope, the reporter notes. The manager’s underlying architecture has barely shifted—on both Windows 10 and Windows 11 it rests on Win32/COM (explorer.exe, shell32)—which suggests engineers may have struggled to weave the new mechanism into these longstanding components. The upshot is that preloading adds overhead without delivering the payoff users would expect.
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Windows 11 File Explorer preloading fails to speed up vs Windows 10
Early tests find Windows 11's File Explorer preloading brings no speed boost versus Windows 10 and consumes 35 MB of RAM, raising doubts about its payoff.
Microsoft has tried to speed up Windows 11 by adding a preloading mechanism to File Explorer, but early tests suggest the change brings no noticeable boost. Windows Latest journalist Abidjit MB compared how the file manager behaves in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Microsoft had recently said the preloading feature should improve interface responsiveness and make File Explorer windows open faster. Yet trials on two virtual machines pointed the other way: there was no real acceleration, and the feature itself occupied about 35 MB of RAM.
Even with preloading enabled, the Windows 11 File Explorer still doesn’t run as smoothly as many would hope, the reporter notes. The manager’s underlying architecture has barely shifted—on both Windows 10 and Windows 11 it rests on Win32/COM (explorer.exe, shell32)—which suggests engineers may have struggled to weave the new mechanism into these longstanding components. The upshot is that preloading adds overhead without delivering the payoff users would expect.
