Windows 10: File Explorer takes forever to load - "working on it"

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    File Explorer takes forever to load - "working on it"


    I have researched this forum and Google and I've done all that has been suggested to try to fix this very annoying issue but nothing worked - Nov 2023It continues to take a very long time to load - "working on it"Windows bug that never got fixedWindows is also up.to.date.

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