Microsoft will improve the performance of File Explorer in Windows 10 21H1
File Explorer is the core component of Microsoft’s operating system. We need to open various folders frequently every day and rely on File Explorer.
However, in the previous version, the File Explorer was found to have performance problems, for example, when performing file searches, related problems such as freezing often occurred.
Although Microsoft has also repaired many times, it does not seem to solve the problem completely, and these problems are expected to be solved in the upcoming Windows 10 21H1 version.
The update released by Microsoft in the Windows 10 Insider Preview makes the File Explorer perform better and also solves the problem of an issue with a heap leak that might cause explorer.exe to consume high amounts of memory.
Now Microsoft has started to fix such problems and optimize search performance. In the latest beta version, Microsoft is testing to solve a series of problems caused by the search box.
Performance optimization is mainly to reduce the memory usage of the File Explorer process (explorer.exe). This problem is also a headache that plagues users.
In particular, sometimes the resource manager will take up a lot of resources just after starting up and cause the system to freeze. It seems that Windows 10 21H1 can solve this situation.
Changelog
- We fixed an issue that displays nothing or shows “Computing Filters” indefinitely when you filter File Explorer search results.
- We fixed an issue with a heap leak that might cause explorer.exe to consume high amounts of memory.
- We fixed an issue that causes multiple instances of explorer.exe to run on a system when AppLocker is enabled and the system is not on the internet.
- We fixed an issue that might cause File Explorer and other applications to stop responding for several minutes. This issue occurs after a client reconnects to the corporate network and attempts to use mapped drives to access file shares on the corporate network.
