December 2025 was a brutal reality check for security teams. While most were winding down for the holidays, threat actors weaponized a tectonic shift in the landscape, headlined by the... The post Top ...

Microsoft didn’t release a major new version of Windows in 2025, but it did deliver a lot of significant updates. Here's my ...

When Windows File Explorer keeps crashing, guesswork won’t help. These proven solutions fix the problem at its source.

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

Microsoft has just released the December Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 24H2, which brings various improvements to File Explorer. Dark mode is finally more consistent, and the ...

Facepalm: Users have long criticized Windows 11 File Explorer as inferior to its Windows 10 predecessor. The essential tool suffers from slow launches, sluggish file searches, and delayed right-click ...

Windows 11 adoption has been slow for many different reasons, from hardware constraints to people just not wanting to do it. Both valid reasons, I think. But today's File Explorer tests prove that ...

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 ...

Microsoft is upgrading Windows 11 File Explorer by adding a preloading function for speedier launch times, as well as cleaning up and reorganising the right-click context menu. These updates are now ...

Windows XXX: First introduced as "Windows Explorer" back in the Windows 95 era, File Explorer has been an integral part of the PC operating system for decades. File Explorer now serves double duty as ...

Preloading will help File Explorer launch more quickly on less powerful hardware. Preloading will help File Explorer launch more quickly on less powerful hardware. is a senior editor and author of ...