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#3441397 8-Dec-2025 11:16

I just love how the start menu will not show, and even pressing windows-E will not work if you have a mapped network drive that is very very slow to respond. 10 was fine with this.

And how they have not fixed the long standing since 95 era problem where if you drag your files over an icon in the left side of explorer that is slow to respond, the whole window will freeze up for an eternity but you have to sit there with your finger on the mouse still because if you let go it will drop the file into whatever is under the mouse when it finally decides to start responding again.

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#3441522 8-Dec-2025 13:44

Yep, it's not your imagaination, and is well-known.

Sometime called ""Do Not Block the UI Thread"", "Synchronous I/O on the UI Thread", "Unresponsive UI Due to Blocking I/O", "Threading Anti-Pattern", "Inversion of responsiveness" or "design smell"

Always called a poor design.

Windows 10 did have these issues, but Windows 11’s redesigned Start menu and shell interactions make the freezes more noticeable and more frequent.

Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) performs blocking I/O calls when

Enumerating drives
Checking free space
Resolving icons/thumbnails
Querying folder metadata
Expanding the navigation pane

If a mapped drive is slow, offline, or high-latency, Explorer will wait for the network request to time out.

Windows Start Menu, Taskbar, and shell integration also run under explorer.exe. Everything is frozen.

Windows 11 introduced heavier shell integrations, making the symptoms worse.

Users have widely reported that Windows 11 is:

more aggressive in querying drive metadata
more reliant on real-time shell extensions
slower at handling disconnected/unresponsive UNC paths
more tightly coupled with explorer.exe for Start menu rendering

his means high-latency resources can now stall more parts of the UI than before.

Blocking You by Ari Lennox

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#3441526 8-Dec-2025 13:55

Complete Guide: Fix Windows 11 File Explorer Lag, Freezing, and Slow Performance Issues:

...This comprehensive guide provides 12 tested methods to resolve File Explorer performance issues, including the latest fixes for Windows 11 24H2’s specific Quick Access cache corruption problems. Whether you’re dealing with minor lag or complete system freezes, these solutions will restore your File Explorer to optimal performance."

another Resource:
File Explorer crashes or freezes when accessing Mapped Network Drives

another resource:
Windows File Explorer freezes when accessing shared drives — causes and solutions

See gpedit / GPO
User Configuration → Administrative Templates → Windows Components → File Explorer

Do not allow Folder Options to be opened from the Tools menu
Turn off the caching of thumbnails in hidden thumbs.db files
Do not keep a history of recently opened documents

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#3441528 8-Dec-2025 14:00

kingdragonfly: Complete Guide: Fix Windows 11 File Explorer Lag, Freezing, and Slow Performance Issues:

...This comprehensive guide provides 12 tested methods to resolve File Explorer performance issues, including the latest fixes for Windows 11 24H2’s specific Quick Access cache corruption problems. Whether you’re dealing with minor lag or complete system freezes, these solutions will restore your File Explorer to optimal performance."

another Resource:
File Explorer crashes or freezes when accessing Mapped Network Drives

another resource:
Windows File Explorer freezes when accessing shared drives — causes and solutions

See gpedit / GPO
User Configuration → Administrative Templates → Windows Components → File Explorer
Policy: Do not allow Folder Options to be opened from the Tools menu
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User Configuration → Administrative Templates → Windows Components → File Explorer
Policy: Turn off the caching of thumbnails in hidden thumbs.db files
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User Configuration → Administrative Templates → Windows Components → File Explorer
Policy: Do not keep a history of recently opened documents
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Or install Linux or Chrome OS Flex 😉

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3441581 8-Dec-2025 14:16

I hear you brother

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s strategy was to de-emphasize Windows as the company’s identity and make recurring subscription revenue the core profit driver.

That’s why Office 365, OneDrive, and Azure are deeply embedded into Windows 11.

They are not just as optional add-ons, but default pathways.

From a business perspective, it’s brilliant.

From a customer-experience perspective, I feel like I'm being milked rather than served.

Microsoft Employee Morale Plummets -- Satya Nadella Pretends to Care About Employees

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#3441698 8-Dec-2025 17:10

kingdragonfly: I hear you brother

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s strategy was to de-emphasize Windows as the company’s identity and make recurring subscription revenue the core profit driver.

That’s why Office 365, OneDrive, and Azure are deeply embedded into Windows 11.

They are not just as optional add-ons, but default pathways.

From a business perspective, it’s brilliant.

From a customer-experience perspective, I feel like I'm being milked rather than served.

Microsoft Employee Morale Plummets -- Satya Nadella Pretends to Care About Employees

Eli the Computer Guy

Hasn't Nadella's approach been a contributing factor to the increased frequency of major cloud outages?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/azure/downdetector-shows-microsoft-azure-is-down-major-outages-hit-office-365-teams-xbox-and-more

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#3441841 8-Dec-2025 19:39

That both Signal and WhatsApp have an absolutely crap experience when moving to a new Android device. In both case, followed all the steps and WhatsApp failed to transfer existing messages and Signal lost messages since last backup.

What a load of crap.

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#3441851 8-Dec-2025 20:27

Yeah, it has such a massive user base it seems incredible to me for it to be still so rushbish.

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#3441856 8-Dec-2025 22:51

Dick Smith shipping ripoff. I need some CR2 batteries which are quite expensive. Found a great deal at DSE $5 each so put half a dozen in the cart and go to checkout and see $33 shipping! Get lost!

[Mod edit (MF): no funny names]

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#3441864 9-Dec-2025 08:01

freitasm:

That both Signal and WhatsApp have an absolutely crap experience when moving to a new Android device. In both case, followed all the steps and WhatsApp failed to transfer existing messages and Signal lost messages since last backup.

What a load of crap.

I recently moved Android -> iPhone and have been disappointed by the same. I set up a clean iPhone adding apps one by one as I like to do this with any new device. When I added WhatsApp I was disappointed to find the only supported migration option is to do the transfer as part of Apple's "Transfer from Android" set up. Once you've set up your iPhone there is no supported option for a WhatsApp transfer. There are some hackish instructions on the web but I didn't bother. I can't understand why WhatsApp can't just design their own sync as other apps manage to do.

Another example of a poor transfer experience is Microsoft Authenticator. Previously you could back up and restore between iPhone<>Android. Now not possible as their iPhone app now backs up to iCloud and Android app to OneDrive. Means neither versions can restore from each other as neither backup/restore to/from a common source. That was the final push for me to buy a Bitwarden sub (only US$10 a year) so I can finally move TOTP codes into Bitwarden. Now I have my TOTP synced across all my devices (and as a bonus they now sit alongside my passwords).

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#3441874 9-Dec-2025 08:21

KiwiSurfer:

freitasm:

That both Signal and WhatsApp have an absolutely crap experience when moving to a new Android device. In both case, followed all the steps and WhatsApp failed to transfer existing messages and Signal lost messages since last backup.

What a load of crap.

I recently moved Android -> iPhone and have been disappointed by the same. I set up a clean iPhone adding apps one by one as I like to do this with any new device. When I added WhatsApp I was disappointed to find the only supported migration option is to do the transfer as part of Apple's "Transfer from Android" set up. Once you've set up your iPhone there is no supported option for a WhatsApp transfer. There are some hackish instructions on the web but I didn't bother. I can't understand why WhatsApp can't just design their own sync as other apps manage to do.

Another example of a poor transfer experience is Microsoft Authenticator. Previously you could back up and restore between iPhone<>Android. Now not possible as their iPhone app now backs up to iCloud and Android app to OneDrive. Means neither versions can restore from each other as neither backup/restore to/from a common source. That was the final push for me to buy a Bitwarden sub (only US$10 a year) so I can finally move TOTP codes into Bitwarden. Now I have my TOTP synced across all my devices (and as a bonus they now sit alongside my passwords).

For Microsoft Authenticator, even if you restore a backup you still have to login for each Microsoft account to enable it, and for each Office account you have to create a new full enrolment. The account names are there just to remind you which ones you have done already.

If you lost your previous phone then you will have to login to these accounts using some other method, like a Yubikey, other authenticator code, phone or password. A bad experience.

Android setup is stupid. You go through it when you start the phone first time. You finished it, then Android shows a notification saying "Finish setting up your phone" and it's the same routine again.

Software experience is shit across all platforms, Android, Windows, MacOS and iOS.

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#3441879 9-Dec-2025 08:41

johno1234:
Dick Smith shipping ripoff. I need some CR2 batteries which are quite expensive. Found a great deal at DSE $5 each so put half a dozen in the cart and go to checkout and see $33 shipping! Get lost!

CR2 batteries are lithium-based and classified as dangerous goods because of fire risks.

Shipping costs can be unusually high if the seller is a Chinese reshipper

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#3441972 9-Dec-2025 12:56

If $5 is target the Warehouse through Grabstore are currently offering Panasonic CR2 for $5.03 with $8 postage per order ex NZ.

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#3441987 9-Dec-2025 13:44

I’ve seen them for up to $18!!!

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#3442028 9-Dec-2025 16:50

I just tried to register on a website run by a major international company. The first step is to enter my name. It doesn't accept it, telling me that it's "not valid".

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