Microsoft tests File Explorer search optimisation to reduce RAM usage in Windows 11

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

Windows 11 performs worse than older Windows versions in nearly every benchmark

YouTuber TrigrZolt ran several tests pitting six generations of Windows - from XP to Windows 11 - against one another to see ...
Hackaday

Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, From Windows XP To Windows 11

Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today’s Windows experience doesn’t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s ...
ExtremeTech

Windows 11 File Explorer Will Finally Use Less RAM

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

Hooray, Microsoft is making File Explorer faster, but it's still slower than Windows 10 and consumes more RAM. Boo

It's a little bit better, but you won't even notice. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Windows 11 adoption has been slow for many ...
TweakTown

Microsoft's plan to speed up File Explorer in Windows 11 backfires: double the RAM, still slow

TL;DR: Windows 11's File Explorer remains slower than Windows 10 despite a fix that preloads the app at startup, doubling its RAM usage without significantly improving speed. The slower performance ...