Windows 10: File Explorer on Windows 11 hangs when working with large files

Hi allI have been having issues with Windows explorer in that it just "hangs" for a long time when trying to either open, or even just right-clicking large filesFor this example, I downloaded Davinci Resolve video editing software. It comes down as a ZIP file. Even just right-clicking it makes explorer hang for a long time but eventually I can extract the .EXE from the ZIP which is 2,106,058 KB 2 GB in size. Right-clicking that produces the same "hang" but eventually I get the context menu appear. Double-clicking it to begin installing hangs explorer yet again for what feels like a lifetime.

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Windows Explorer crashing due to large files

thats wierd... iv never had a large file crash explorer before....


and i have files ranging upto 80GB...

 

Windows Explorer crashing due to large files

So I downloaded project reality a mob for BF2 I used uTorrent to download the file and it check to make sure it wasnt corrupt.

Everytime I try to do anything with the file windows explorer hangs and I have to restart it.

This is the same for the old version of project reality. I cannot delete it.

I have never had this happen.

The files in question are 1.8 GB

 

Windows Explorer crashing due to large files

It's an .exe right? Explorer probably read its icon (to a cache) when it was a "small" file and now call the quits when it finds "such a big" file.

If you want to delete it, use the console after killing explorer, you can run the console from TaskManager (Application -> New Task -> cmd). You might want to try copy the file to a different location (copy, not cut) and see if explorer can handle it in the new location before deleting it.