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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by nmeofthestate on Thursday May 01, 2025 @05:52AM (#43855580)
Microsoft have even managed to make Windows Explorer (a lot) worse in Windows 11. Auto-complete in the address bar completely unresponsive. Taking ten seconds to show the contents of a local folder. Interacting with network shares a complete usability mess. Looks a bit nicer though, and there's tabs. Goodness knows who they've got maintaining Windows.
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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by diggan on Thursday May 01, 2025 @06:07AM (#43855693)
> Taking ten seconds to show the contents of a local folder.

I thought that was just me, and even though all hard-drives seemed healthy, I was planning on switching the oldest out. But if others are having the same issue, guess they just screwed up the software side of things, like usual.

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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by windward on Thursday May 01, 2025 @07:22AM (#43856232)
>Goodness knows who they've got maintaining Windows.

Developers who exclusively test on SSDs is my guess. The UI hasn't taken into account any latency from reads.

Having a HDD now moves you into power user territory.

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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by Ponet1945 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @06:23AM (#43855811)
Check out https://filepilot.tech/

It's in beta and no network drives or CJK yet but feels like a breath of fresh air.

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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by _hao on Thursday May 01, 2025 @06:12AM (#43855736)
Give the new FilePilot a try - https://filepilot.tech/
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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by whywhywhywhy on Thursday May 01, 2025 @06:24AM (#43855814)
The address bar opens history when you click the delete button too.
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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by taspeotis on Thursday May 01, 2025 @09:07AM (#43857189)
Microsoft Corporation publish Windows File Manager via the Microsoft Store.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p7vbbbc49rb

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