Windows 10: Windows Explorer is extremely slow

Discus and support Windows Explorer is extremely slow in Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging to solve the problem; Hello everyone, so yesterday my PC and power supply was off when the light went off for 1-2 minutes. Then when the lights came back on I went to my PC... Discussion in 'Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging' started by UnseeableGaming, Apr 7, 2020.

  1. Windows Explorer is extremely slow


    Hello everyone,

    so yesterday my PC and power supply was off when the light went off for 1-2 minutes. Then when the lights came back on I went to my PC play Minecraft. I turn on my PC and everything is normal until I logged into the user. My PC specs are:

    Ryzen 7 2700x

    16 GB of 3200MHZ RAM

    RTX 2070

    a 550W PSU from CORSHAIR

    Gigabyte B450 AORUS M Motherboard

    Samsung Evo 970 m.2 500GB

    1 TB HDD

    Then when I enter my password, my PC takes a very long time to log in. Obviously I'm used to very quick times for logging in and all of that because I have a M.2. So then I wait and finally it logs me in. But nothing responds. On my old laptop that was very slow it would log me in the user not load any of the icons not even the background. Then it would load everything in. But my PC loaded the background the taskbaronly the windows logo and the searchbar but all the icons were white. I try to click on the taskbar but nothing happens I just get the blue circle mouse cursor and really fast the windows explorer ends the task and starts it back up again. But it wont fix anything, all it changes is that it lets me open the start menu. So then I hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and everything in that menu loads up furiously fast. Then I restart my PC and everything goes back to best really fast. So then I continue with my day. Today though it was different. Since we are in quarantine I had a meeting. So I turn on my PC and its the same thing. Nothing loads up except for all of the things I mentioned before. So logically I do the same thing I hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and again everything loads up very fast. I reboot but it's the same thing. Very slow while logging in and almost nothing loads up. So then into safe mode. Everything loads up beautifully there. So I disable fast start up, stop all the programs from loading in Task Manager, and reboot. Everything loads up great. I check for Windows updates, and installed them. When my PC restarted and did everything for the updates I log in but it's still awfully slow. Nothing changes, so I I hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and restart it again. Same thing. Then I restored the system in a restore point where everything was running great. I do that everything goes amazingly. Then I booted into Windows and sadly it's the same thing. I restart and it's loaded up correctly. I take advantage of that and make sure that Fast Startup is still disabled. I also do sfc/scannow. There were corrupt files and it successfully fixed them. I reboot but unfortunately it doesn't load properly. I restart it then it loads properly. Then I have no other ideas of what it could be so I shut it down and just continue with my day. Anyone got any ideas why this happens and how to fix it?

    :)
     
    UnseeableGaming, Apr 7, 2020
    #1
  2. andrekish Win User

    Extremely slow Windows Explorer. Please help.


    Hello - there's solution posted here - but cannot say if it works totally yet though but it has helped me just now. Hope it helps you too. Save any work open first, before you do this.

    Taken from site at this board - Solved File explorer slow with loading thumnails and files - Windows 10 Forums

    Step by step guide:
    1. Hold Win+r to open run
    2. Type msconfig and hit ok or enter
    3. Click Services
    4. Navigate to Windows search (you can sort the list in descending alphabetical order)
    5. Uncheck tickbox
    6. Click apply then ok
    7. Select to restart now

    Hope this works for you.

    -- Your system will need a restart when it reconfigures itself so save any work first. I tried this myself and it ran slow first time while it indexed slow directories - then after I closed file explorer and reloaded it it ran fast on slow directories. I hope it helps you. Best of luck and best wishes.
     
    andrekish, Apr 7, 2020
    #2
  3. iuseword3 Win User
    File Explorer Extremely slow

    My company has been having issues with file explorer one being loading file explorer is extremely slow. There are other programs having issues now but I feel are not important. To test if this was caused by user error I create a fresh install on a computer
    suffering from the slow down issues. Tested the speed of windows explorer then I ran a windows update and right after the restart my explorer started acting slow.

    Operating system: Windows 10 pro x64

    These are the updates that go forced to my machine:

    Quality updates:

    KB4457128 (2)

    KB4456655

    KB4457146

    Definition Updates

    KB4052623

    KB2267602

    Other Updates:

    KB890830
     
    iuseword3, Apr 7, 2020
    #3
  4. Windows Explorer is extremely slow

    Jumplist sometimes extremely slow

    I bought a new laptop with Windows 10 recently.

    Only after a few days, the jump lists started to get extremely slow.

    But they behave that way just for a while, then they work as they should again.

    When slow, it takes several minutes for the jump list to appear. It is extremely annoying. Especially e.g. when I have opened a remote desktop and want to open another one via the jumplist.

    I had exactly the same problem with my old Windows 7 PC and assumed that I would get rid of that problem,
    changing both PC and OS, but no.

    I do not want the standard answers to this problem:

    - Disable Aero

    - Clear the (Explorer) Cache for Jump lists

    - etc.

    It is definitely something else. I mean, how would the jump list cache get full after only a week? And why does the jump list get slow only sometimes and then suddenly works just fine again?

    So please, give me an answer that takes this into consideration.
     
    Anders Edvin, Apr 7, 2020
    #4
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