A new Windows 11 Insider update optimises File Explorer search by removing redundant indexing operations, promising faster ...

Early tests on Insider builds show that searches may execute roughly twice as fast as with the previous method.

Windows 11 is testing a new underlying improvement for File Explorer that could potentially reduce RAM usage when you're ...

Why this is important: File Explorer isn’t a niche app; it’s the core of how you browse files, move folders, open documents, manage downloads, and more. If it doesn’t feel snappy, everything else on ...

In brief: If you frequently deal with zipped files, File Explorer should soon perform notably better during extraction. Developers have optimized the feature in the latest Windows 11 Preview Build. It ...

Microsoft appears to have plans in the works to add tabs to the File Explorer on Windows 11. We’d like to know if that’s enough for you or if you’d like to see tabs available across more apps. Windows ...

Update KB5051987, released last week for Windows 11 24H2, was supposed to bring important security fixes and quality-of-life improvements. However, some users who installed the cumulative February ...

Unlike in the old days, Windows 11's File Explorer opens by default not to "This PC" with all your drives, but to the new Home page with quick access to user folders, favorites and shared files. To ...

An upcoming change now in preview will remove AI actions from the right-click menu when disabled or when there are no AI actions that apply.