Fix Slow folders in Windows | Long Loading Time for Drives and Folders

Opening specific folders or drives taking a LONG time? Just a loading bar and a blank screen? This video shows a few of the most straightforward fixes for this issue and should get you back into a snappy file-browsing experience quickly.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Explanation
0:38 - Fix slow-loading folders/drives in Windows
1:15 - Clear thumbnail cache
#Windows #Guide #Fix
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[@Sovereign_54]

This was great. Fixed my slow folder. I knew about making this change, but I was doing it at the folder level, which didn't work. Doing it at the drive level worked like a charm.

[@sinrob1]

Thanks for posting this tip. It solved some painfully slow loading issues that were plaguing my video folders.

[@Knowledgeispower2000]

Thank you. I was hitting a wall trying to figure out why my folders were so slow. I appreciate your help

[@EBZTech]

Thank you so much. This is what i have been looking for in a long time and it has been giving me headaches. You are a life saver.

[@hansdoreen]

Wow, amazing! Never knew there's a customize option for different items for my folders.

[@stevekahle3569]

Many thanks for this awesome fix for a long-standing and very frustrating problem! This is the only thing that worked among the many potential solutions I tried!

[@bollejy]

Much thanks for this fix! Easy and really helpful

[@prinz4279]

Holy- I thought I'd have to sift through four different KZbin videos to fix this problem! This worked great!

[@MaxxFYT]

So simple, so on point, so wonderfully helpful

[@KameSensei]

this type of video should be somewhere in the base folders of windows thanks

[@dewaslive]

our team was frustrated because of slow file explorer, thanks it worked now, solution worked perfectly

[@OAikoT]

Thank you so much, it was driving me nuts when trying to edit videos and have ton of subfolders loading forever even on new SSD. Can't believe Windows is that wonky.

[@MIchaelSybi]

I hate windows 11 so much I eager to deinstall it and return to 10

[@Magrodik]

@@MIchaelSybi exactly. it was even lagging and crashing.

[@gingobingo1567]

@@MIchaelSybiSame. I had no problems with slow folders on W10.

[@CherryBlossomStorm]

WOW this worked thank you. Even with the thumbnails, it loads instantly again. Thanks.

[@whatohyou01]

Nice, it worked! customize folder to general items worked like a charm, THX!

[@P.Griffin]

Worked like a charm. You're awesome!

[@hasibulislam2001]

Great. Very helpful video. I was suffering from this many days

[@stevenjonas1]

Still works!! thank you so much :)

[@karimemmo954]

Amazing stuff mate. Thanks

[@bauershouse3594]

holy shit. Ty so much for this!

[@robh5695]

Thanks, this is great to know!

[@RegoneFF]

dude, my downloads folder that i open a couple of times a day was doing it and i couldn't find the solution for 1 year+ and i was sure it was indexing problem, oh my god. you the man.

[@brooksdavid8575]

Thank you so much! You are one of the bests!

[@SquareFocusDigitalMedia]

Thanks boss, you saved my workflow. Take my sub!

[@Bat_pann]

Thank you, The first solution worked perfectly for me, but I just had to change it from general to videos since my folder was full of videos.

[@SimonStaxPoker]

Omg this was a game changer, fixed my folder thanks so much!

[@rnw26l]

Thank you so much, finally a fix to an extremely vexing problem.

[@epoxyethane4932]

Thanks, fixed the video folder ;)

[@seajay5487]

Thx ! it worked for me !

[@ex-posertoons7338]

Thanks!

[@FloppaKnight]

thank you man

[@king-vampire7309]

that helped me to fix the issue thank u for sharing the video

[@chan-fm1qo]

Much more helpful than average

[@SuperWaseem20]

Absolutely great

[@isoufo]

Holy crap!! Thank you so much. My new 12tb drive was so painful to load... now it's instant!! You literally saved me hundreds of dollars I was going to buy more SSDs and m.2.

[@THEPOWER99FM]

I actually have a 2TB M.2 SSD in my custom made pc but it takes flie especially music forever to load it’s ridiculous it slows down my work flow I have windows 11 home. But now hopefully this video will fix it.

[@MrLibormortis]

Thanks the first tip worked for me, 😄

[@TheVolca]

that was so helpfull thank you

[@99desi9n]

OMG I can't believe it was such a simple fix

[@jakehenne]

You just saved me hours upon hours of loading time, what a Chad you are for making this video!

[@phethomakhadi5415]

Thank u so much

[@lovelightawareness]

YOU JUST EARNED A SUBSCRIBER

[@rohitut1]

This works thanks

[@MacCoy]

thank god, ive been going insane with slow drive thing for a while now. ugghuhuh thankyou thank you

[@Murthyams]

second thing worked for me .. thx

[@PandaArts]

this guy is awesome

[@SwaMusic]

Oh my goodness, no way! Thank you very much! Worked for Win10 immediately! 🙏

[@itchyJaw]

damn that works thank you!

[@aslideshbhakt.]

Thank you

[@DopamineOverload]

Thank you. Was driving me NUTS.

[@coloneludinmorteni3232]

Thank you man, my 2024 march folder with 940 mb loads after 30 seconds even though it was small. It really works, even though it was set to videos I have no idea why

[@redoone9562]

ive this problem on discord on my phone whenever i watch a stream of someone it shows me a green bar with (now watching (name of the person streaming) stream) and i wanna get rid of it how do i do that i thought u might be able to help me out cuz a takes op a portion of the stream and is not fun when ure trying to watch a movie with someone in fullscreen and having the distracting green bar ontop ty for ure help

[@outriderx]

THANKS HERO

[@ChrisMcKiernan]

thank you

[@THEPOWER99FM]

If this works thank you I will try when I get home I subscribed and liked the video🤟

[@rich22221]

Thanks it worked, why didn't I try to find a solution a month ago...

[@UltraVoidPlaysRoblox]

its a nice tutorial! it pretty much works on my hdd!

[@OAikoT]

For HDDs also remember to defragment them at least once a month. Especially with some games it helps a lot. Any Sims game is best example too, fragmented HDD can make it literally lag :/

[@UltraVoidPlaysRoblox]

@@OAikoT ye i know. i only wanted to see this but, now i switched back from windows 11 until they fix some annoying bugs that i found and, i dont think im the only one that has found them.

[@OAikoT]

@@UltraVoidPlaysRoblox What bugs do you have in mind? I switched to Windows 11 few months ago only because the upgrade was free and my Windows 10 was already buggy itself, like search bar literally stopped working.

[@UltraVoidPlaysRoblox]

@@OAikoT for example: when i did a splitscreen so i can see both windows it would lag out for a bit then stop lagging and when i moved one of the windows everything was lagging all the way. not like thats normal as i never had that. so i had a reason...

[@PlayOfLifeOfficial]

Works!

[@Puggelicious]

Ive been recently having this issue after ive download movies. I have a whole collection of them but all of a sudden this is happening? I still have 2TB on my drive aswell?

[@AsisunAlta]

thanks

[@Couleur]

ty

[@brpeterplays]

THANK YOU! I thought i had installed my new M.2 SSD wrong or that 20+ GB files were causing it. Cheesus crust thanks again!

[@onyx_yt]

Thank You!!! Shit was getting so annoying.

[@thes.m.uchannel9685]

wonderful thank you

[@Phantom-Soul]

Sometimes right clicking and opening it in a new tab works wonders too

[@kurtdheuzmontero720]

Thank you for fixing my drive, but can you make a video about speeding up my local disk as well

[@igyysdaddy191]

then, is there a solution which can generate thumbnails when pc is not busy?

[@hko2006]

0:53 this doesnt fix the slow for me, any other suggestions?

[@kalpshah3273]

I don't have custom option here. Can you please help?

[@dekhan7659]

i don't have the customize option in properties ?

[@popcopone5172]

thank you vey much. it solved it for me. blows my mind windows can be so shit with small stuff like this. you cna have high end pc yet you have to do stuff extra like watching your video to fix shit performance

[@Jakiyyyyy]

Now make a video how to fix slow start menu on Windows 11? Either to load it up or when using search function.

[@cmd_f5]

This kinda works, but I think there's Windows Defender tryna scan every file in a folder, esp if you're dealing with applications and installers, that sorta thing. The fans spin up and eventually, my I7 machine loads them/presents the folder. Windows ain't what it used to be, that's for sure.

[@joshuafermin7093]

For me it was the radeon driver, idk how. when I stopped it in task manager everything went back to normal

[@derpymcderpster5526]

Ok, what am I supposed to do if there is no Thumbnails option in the Disk Cleanup?

[@Jayteaseepiirturi]

ARGH! THANK YOU! Jesus effing Christ! I knew these "optimizations" were just friggin' pointless.

[@brad3706]

Seems Microsoft wants to end support of 10 as I've met three people who have the same issues, Microsoft refuses to release a patch, and we all intend on switching to Apple or Linux due to sheer frustration: windows began running slow, then either won't shut down or boot. We all dl the latest updates, all are upto date, no malware detected, yet windows 10 won't load. Automatic repair even sits and spins. It's a complete mess. I can't believe they use and abuse their customers with their bugged up software. Never again..... never.

[@Dewaxel]

Can you somehow explain how you did that when you had Windows 10 in your older videos, you didn't have blured taskbar, how is it possible?

[@tech_tamim2960]

Turn of transparency effects in windows settings

[@Dewaxel]

@@tech_tamim2960 great, but the transparency is the thing i want from it

[@photoman9602]

Thank you. I almost returned my NVMe😂.

[@angeltensey]

holy jesus, you've got one hell of a ssd space

[@Hard3n3d]

i disable automatic folder type discovery in regedit its the best solution.

[@efg5079]

For me there is no customise option in my ssd but there is for my other one

[@mewmew0802]

Same here. The customize option is missing for me.

[@q7ep]

optimizing it worked when i did the drive and all subfolders, but didnt work when i did the specific folder that was loading slow 🤑 (but a wins a win so idrc)

[@tech_tamim2960]

Do you use AtlasOs?

[@TroubleChute]

No

[@tech_tamim2960]

@@TroubleChute i saw 1 of ur drives named Atlas

[@chrisrucier9488]

cheeki breeki

[@martinstrickland8260]

I don’t have custom button

[@WorldUnseen]

Bro has the ASMR mic

[@57ar7up]

As always, not fixed my problem. Just 1 folder behaves lazy - Desktop (yes, that opened always)

[@samiulalam6277]

Not working

[@tekno47]

goat

[@ZorroDaddy]

Dont work.

[@BenKempa]

Nope, none of this works

[@AudioBoi1]

It's annoying that windows does that

[@DragonHuman00]

Didn't help at all :(

[@mmcquay73]

This is why Microsoft Windows suck...the Dev's know this is a common issue but yet with all of the thousands of patches and updates things like this are never resolved. I don't get it, I miss the days of XP.

[@tortoisetortellini6503]

A trouble shoot on youtube that actually works!? Is this real life or is this just fantasy?

[@Cymanytb]

I hate Windows 11

[@blackacidproduction]

DUDE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU ARE THE MANNNNNNNNNNNNNN YOU SAVED MY LIFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@dye5915]

load of crap My drive dont even have a Customize Tab 👎

[@andreykochergin]

doesn't help. Jezuz. I'm ucked up with datsht. when I was a Macuser I never NEVER had a problems like that

[@deeprajkishorgajjar2833]

thanks