Windows File Explorer Gets Nostalgic Speed Boost Thanks To One Weird Bug (theregister.com) 39
An exploit for a bug in Windows appears to increase the performance of File Explorer in Microsoft's flagship operating system. From a report: Spotted over the weekend by Xitter user @VivyVCCS, the hack is triggered by a swift jab of the F11 key to switch File Explorer in and out of full-screen mode. According to the post, load performance is improved markedly.
So after F11 no more calling home? (Score:4, Informative)
Another reason why they want you to use Edge.
Re:So after F11 no more calling home? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So after F11 no more calling home? (Score:5, Funny)
The results will shock you. Coders hate it!
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Clickbait title: "Microsoft Hates it When You Use This One Weird Trick to Improve File Explorer Performance"
But was it discovered by a single mom?
Re: So after F11 no more calling home? (Score:2)
Re:So after F11 no more calling home? (Score:5, Funny)
"It's irrelevant for me in any case. Quite aside from not using Windows, I also don't use graphical file managers (because I know how to use wildcards and tab completion and such, which makes file management considerably faster and easier when done via a command line interface)."
We are really impressed with your power user credentials. Perhaps you can join the SuperKendall club.
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> I also don't use graphical file managers (because I know how to use wildcards and tab completion and such
That's cute. Once you get a Neuralink human-computer interface chip you can control files using your thoughts with the rest of us in the 21st century.
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Re:So after F11 no more calling home? (Score:4, Funny)
because I know how to use wildcards and tab completion and such
I kept hitting * and tab over and over but for some reason my image files wouldn't preview their graphical contents forcing me to open them one at a time looking for the one I wanted.
Any tips?
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Tried that. It's painfully slow and not at all efficient. Does the command line not have a preview option? Does it really expect me to use a computer the way I did 30 years ago? Maybe this "BBS" thing has the answer. Now I just need to figure out where the "modem" in my computer is and then I should be set. I hear surfing the net gives you all the answers directly from cyberspace.
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Makes sense, like wiggling the mouse during setup.exe getting more schedule.
Re:So after F11 no more calling home? (Score:5, Insightful)
Now I love a good CLI, but I don't agree with the implication that a GFM is somehow inferior. There's nothing inherently slower about drag-and-drop. "Most" people (and by a staggering majority) are only operating in a handful of sources and destinations, and most drag and drop operations are trivial and convenient. And I know of no more convenient way to send a document through email than dragging it onto your draft.
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Besides the point that the GFM can preview file contents in the file display in near realtime. It's one thing to say you're good at moving data around, but good luck writing a console script that selects all pictures where the model is wearing a red dress, or all videos with a run length greater than 10minutes (something you can do in explorer in 4 clicks and a shift key (two to show the run length columns), one to sort files by run length and then one along with shift to select the file.
Text based file man
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What makes you think graphical file managers don't have this function?
Can we turn off the "calculating" feature too? (Score:1)
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Time to crack open xtreepro
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It doesn't work slow like that anymore for what I've seen.
Would you believe it? (Score:1)
If someone told you that Windows would run faster if you stick your finger in your ass would you?
Re:Would you believe it? (Score:5, Funny)
That would make you a Mac user though.
Re:Would you believe it? (Score:4, Insightful)
That would make you a Mac user though.
Instructions unclear. Stuck finger in ass and Apple's prices are still unaffordable.
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If someone told you that Windows would run faster if you stick your finger in your ass would you?
If you're an adult streaming entertainer and use the money you earn to buy a faster computer, that technically could work.
Although, considering that this site's current demographic is mostly balding middle-aged men, as the Ferengi say, I don't think there'd be much profit in it.
Due to a change in priority? Or... (Score:3)
Seems like a full screen program might get higher priority than when you have multiple windows showing. Or use different optimizations in GDI called? Old software uses old (unoptimized forgotten) API's.
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Old software uses old (unoptimized forgotten) API's.
There's nothing old about windows file explorer. It's received quite extensive re-writes since MS got a hardon for touch interfaces. Even thumbnail storage changed which is why accessing a shared drive with windows 7, previewing thumbs, and then trying to do it on Windows 11 causes it to glitch out and re-build the thumbnails.
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Windows is a load (Score:1)
Whether it loads fast or loads slow, it's still a load.
But (Score:2)
Who uses Windows File Explorer these days?
Theres plenty of better alternatives, some shareware , some free.
I use Directory Opus , and have done since before i got a PC
Bug? (Score:2)
Bug? The editor apparently misspelled "Easter Egg".
good alternatives? (Score:2)
Are there any good alternatives to File Explorer? A few years ago, I tried a dozen candidates, and all lacked at least one function that's available in Explorer.