GUYS, you dont have to restart your computer! Open Windows Explorer, then open Task Manager, and sort by application name. Find Explorer and click the "Restart Task" button. This will refresh the Windows UI and kill any open Explorer windows. Open Explorer again, and voila! Your pictures, documents, etc. will look the same until you customize their views yourself. I improvised this method because I am keen on _not_ restarting my PC. It's just time consuming in my opinion.
I am absolutely baffled. My explorer was kinda slow, so I tried this, only to then realize that I had been living in hell for a long time. Absolutely fantastic. Highly recommend.
The problem is that not enough people are seeing this video. They are all changing to general items in folder properties and it doesn't work. Then going back to reddit and complaining some more. Finally a solution that works!! I was going crazy with a superfast pc and the two internal M.2 drives.
Awesome! Though it seems the only thing required is to do the step to add the string value ../AllFolders/Shell/FolderType [NotSpecified], 3:07. No need to delete the BagMRU and Bags folders first. At least this worked for me. Now it's no delay on folders. Only thing that is a slight delay with green progress bar is to generate video thumbnails if folder is set to View as icons. I presume the video is not meant to address that type of delay anyway.
Holy hell this is the only thing that worked for me. Tried all of the other nonsense windows recommended fixes. Initial symptoms: File Explorer super laggy, simply renaming a file took 10-15 seconds. Copy-pasting files took minutes, etc, etc. Everything is super snappy now, thanks!
I got about 30 seconds in and I instantly love you. It was like listening to me in my own head. The second you mentioned the awesomely useless widgets.. I knew that I would find this even if not useful, most certainly entertaining. Instant sub.
AMAZING!! THANK-YOU Dan for this incredible fix! I agree with other users; this should have millions of views. What an amazing transformation; Explorer is now virtually instantaneous on most tasks. Thank you again for posting this!
OK, here's some Powershell code to do this automatically. Remove-Item -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU' -Recurse -Force Remove-Item -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags' -Recurse -Force New-Item -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell' -Force New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell' -Name 'FolderType' -PropertyType String -Value 'NotSpecified' Reboot. Note: This will require a new version of Powershell to function, not the default version that comes with Windows 10/11.
I would recommend to only do the last bit. What is slow is Windows "discovering" what type a folder is when it hasn't done that before. Deleting the existing bags just deletes your preferences that you made for a specific folder in the past like the view type, sort order etc. Retrieving those settings is pretty fast as it just looks up an ID and doesn't have to parse every single file in that folder first before it can determine its type, which is a truly awful feature to have enabled by default.
WHAT 😮 It bloody works 100%. What on Earth 🤓I am stunned., I can't help but check every folder even those where I have thumbnails. They just appear immediately 😎 WOW !!!!!!!!
It appears to auto-restore the folders and keys, post-reboot in Win11. Looks like I was able to get bags to delete, on a second try but BagMRU still restores.
This is excellent info. I have multiple drives and some took forever to open. Now they're instantaneous. May I ask a favor? For some of us older folks, could you put a step by step into the description and/or speak a bit more slowly? Again, thanks. This is great.
What i kinda dont understand - i thought that this channel would have atleast like 500k subs or more and then i took a look and ... SO BETTER LEAVE A SUB GUYS - nice video! keep it up buddy
Holy shit. Been putting up with dogshit slow explorer windows since Windows 7. This has made a night and day difference, I'm genuinely stunned. Thanks dude!
Why this is not included in indexing? Everything should be loaded in background and stored in windows database. This is what file indexing should be. The idea is cool, music folder - all music tags etc. But why it's doing it when i open the folder? It's ridiculous. It would be ridiculous in beta build, but it's straight embarrassing in final version.
This was driving me insane. Thank you so much. Strangely enough though this fix created an extra annoying bar in Explorer with Organize/Open/Include Selected Folder in Library / Give access to and in some cases different names as well.
@@itsdanielpaul W11 with Startallback and the W7 Explorer setting. Thank you again for this tip, it seemed to slightly improved performance. I'm still experiencing a right click delay on two different machines, do you have any suggestions for that as well?
Couple of very picky things (since you are editing the registry) - camelCase does not have capitalized first letter - and the font of the text embedded in the video (for what to type) uses ALL CAPS and LOWERCASE CAPS which is VERY confusing. The keys/string data probably won't work in all caps
Sorry for the unrelated question, but you seem to know Windows: my file explorer has recently stopped showing past tags in a dropdown when I'm typing a tag into the metadata field. I used to be able to type com and it would suggest complete, for example. Now it just sits as long as I leave it showing nothing. Do you have any clue how to fix that? I've done a reinstall of Windows through the update system, which reset all my regedits but it hasn't changed this.
When I open a folder (mostly games) with lot of music/sound the Windows Explorer become unstable and if you don't wait the loading to finnish it just crash. This could be related...
@@itsdanielpaul I currently don't have a game which has that much sound in one folder which would cause issue, so I can't confirm. But the loading times significantly reduced by this setting.
In my brief test, yes, you can! But I only just tested it, I'm not sure if it stays that way, or messes up the fix. You can definitely set up a folder to display differently and save that, you don't necessarily need to use folder types.
Here a powershell script to delete and recreate the lines. You can run is it Powershell ISE: if (-NOT ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator")) { Write-Warning "You do not have Administrator rights to run this script! Please re-run as Administrator." break } Remove-Item -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU' -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Remove-Item -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags' -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue New-Item -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell' -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell' -Name 'FolderType' -PropertyType String -Value 'NotSpecified' -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Write-Output "Registry modifications completed."
GUYS, you dont have to restart your computer! Open Windows Explorer, then open Task Manager, and sort by application name. Find Explorer and click the "Restart Task" button. This will refresh the Windows UI and kill any open Explorer windows. Open Explorer again, and voila! Your pictures, documents, etc. will look the same until you customize their views yourself.
I improvised this method because I am keen on _not_ restarting my PC. It's just time consuming in my opinion.
O heck yeah! Thanks for the suggestion
another option is open cmd, run "taskkill /f /im explorer.exe" then running "explorer" with no arguments
Thx!
I am absolutely baffled. My explorer was kinda slow, so I tried this, only to then realize that I had been living in hell for a long time. Absolutely fantastic. Highly recommend.
The problem is that not enough people are seeing this video. They are all changing to general items in folder properties and it doesn't work. Then going back to reddit and complaining some more. Finally a solution that works!! I was going crazy with a superfast pc and the two internal M.2 drives.
Post it on Reddit! I can’t they delete it for self promotion lol
Also glad it helped!! It’s transforms your computer seriosuly
Awesome! Though it seems the only thing required is to do the step to add the string value ../AllFolders/Shell/FolderType [NotSpecified], 3:07. No need to delete the BagMRU and Bags folders first. At least this worked for me. Now it's no delay on folders. Only thing that is a slight delay with green progress bar is to generate video thumbnails if folder is set to View as icons. I presume the video is not meant to address that type of delay anyway.
Holy hell this is the only thing that worked for me. Tried all of the other nonsense windows recommended fixes.
Initial symptoms: File Explorer super laggy, simply renaming a file took 10-15 seconds. Copy-pasting files took minutes, etc, etc. Everything is super snappy now, thanks!
I can already see the newspaper headlines "unknown guy from RUclips saves millions of neurotic human lives"
underrated guy
I got about 30 seconds in and I instantly love you. It was like listening to me in my own head. The second you mentioned the awesomely useless widgets.. I knew that I would find this even if not useful, most certainly entertaining. Instant sub.
haha welcome to the insane asylum! My next video chronicles my attempts to make Alexa control my computer and it's... a total disaster.
AMAZING!! THANK-YOU Dan for this incredible fix! I agree with other users; this should have millions of views. What an amazing transformation; Explorer is now virtually instantaneous on most tasks. Thank you again for posting this!
I wish more people saw this vid it really is that good!! Glad I could help!!
I am so grateful. If you use this fix and it works for you, please post this video onto every forum you can find!! Pay it forward!
OK, here's some Powershell code to do this automatically.
Remove-Item -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU' -Recurse -Force
Remove-Item -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags' -Recurse -Force
New-Item -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell' -Force
New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell' -Name 'FolderType' -PropertyType String -Value 'NotSpecified'
Reboot.
Note: This will require a new version of Powershell to function, not the default version that comes with Windows 10/11.
Wow, this is great! Thanks!
I would recommend to only do the last bit. What is slow is Windows "discovering" what type a folder is when it hasn't done that before. Deleting the existing bags just deletes your preferences that you made for a specific folder in the past like the view type, sort order etc.
Retrieving those settings is pretty fast as it just looks up an ID and doesn't have to parse every single file in that folder first before it can determine its type, which is a truly awful feature to have enabled by default.
WHAT 😮 It bloody works 100%. What on Earth 🤓I am stunned., I can't help but check every folder even those where I have thumbnails. They just appear immediately 😎 WOW !!!!!!!!
haha amazing!! Glad to hear it!!
It appears to auto-restore the folders and keys, post-reboot in Win11. Looks like I was able to get bags to delete, on a second try but BagMRU still restores.
Looks like it did the trick! Keeping my fingers crossed. lol Thanks! And here I thought my drives where failing...
You earned a subscription. Didn't fix the specific issue I had, but still much faster Explorer. Cheers!
This is excellent info. I have multiple drives and some took forever to open. Now they're instantaneous. May I ask a favor? For some of us older folks, could you put a step by step into the description and/or speak a bit more slowly? Again, thanks. This is great.
What i kinda dont understand - i thought that this channel would have atleast like 500k subs or more and then i took a look and ... SO BETTER LEAVE A SUB GUYS - nice video! keep it up buddy
Appreciate it! And would double appreciate a share! I literally think every Windows user should do this
Gonna give this a try. I have been trying to find a solution to this dumb sh** for years.
Holy shit. Been putting up with dogshit slow explorer windows since Windows 7. This has made a night and day difference, I'm genuinely stunned. Thanks dude!
Why this is not included in indexing? Everything should be loaded in background and stored in windows database. This is what file indexing should be.
The idea is cool, music folder - all music tags etc. But why it's doing it when i open the folder? It's ridiculous. It would be ridiculous in beta build, but it's straight embarrassing in final version.
You are a gentleman and a scholar, fine sir. I'm can't believe that green bar is finally gone!!!!!!!!!!!
This was driving me insane. Thank you so much. Strangely enough though this fix created an extra annoying bar in Explorer with Organize/Open/Include Selected Folder in Library / Give access to and in some cases different names as well.
Hm, I'm not seeing that on my end! Are you on Windows 10 or 11?
@@itsdanielpaul W11 with Startallback and the W7 Explorer setting. Thank you again for this tip, it seemed to slightly improved performance. I'm still experiencing a right click delay on two different machines, do you have any suggestions for that as well?
Couple of very picky things (since you are editing the registry)
- camelCase does not have capitalized first letter
- and the font of the text embedded in the video (for what to type) uses ALL CAPS and LOWERCASE CAPS which is VERY confusing. The keys/string data probably won't work in all caps
Holy shirt-balls, that actually worked! God bless you sir! You're doing the work that the rest of the interwebz has failed to provide!
Feck yeah! I wish more people saw this!
You gave me an immense quality of life improvement and I love you.
I’m so glad! This video needs more views I feel like most windows users just think it’s supposed to run poorly
Thanks Dan, I never tried to fix this issue but it always messed with me.
It's the first thing I do when I clean install windows! I don't know how it's allowed on there, it makes it so slow.
This was immensely helpful. Thank you.
Damn this makes me even happier i switched to linux
Thank you. Worked perfectly. So great!
it doesnt work...
Sorry for the unrelated question, but you seem to know Windows: my file explorer has recently stopped showing past tags in a dropdown when I'm typing a tag into the metadata field. I used to be able to type com and it would suggest complete, for example. Now it just sits as long as I leave it showing nothing.
Do you have any clue how to fix that? I've done a reinstall of Windows through the update system, which reset all my regedits but it hasn't changed this.
0:40 It's also hiding the type, date, and size for audio files which is so annoying
Right! Like who has audio files in their file system and needs to know what album and track they are?
Freaking Amazing this issue was a HUGE downer ! you just earned a like and a sub !
This video is the 3rd and the final reason the Internet was created for.
What are the first two reasons
@@itsdanielpaul the 1st reason was pictures of cats. 🙂
This should have a million views
Sorry, where's the description?
THANK YOU
congrats you saved my pc from death (i was going to destroy it to pieces)
We love to hear it!!
When I open a folder (mostly games) with lot of music/sound the Windows Explorer become unstable and if you don't wait the loading to finnish it just crash. This could be related...
Did it work?
@@itsdanielpaul I currently don't have a game which has that much sound in one folder which would cause issue, so I can't confirm.
But the loading times significantly reduced by this setting.
i love u i love u i love u i love u i love u i love u THANKS
Can you manually change the folder type after this reg tweak?
In my brief test, yes, you can! But I only just tested it, I'm not sure if it stays that way, or messes up the fix. You can definitely set up a folder to display differently and save that, you don't necessarily need to use folder types.
Is it the same on Windows 10 too?
Yep! I did this on Windows 10 first actually.
Holy fucking shit it works
dude why havent you blown up, so funny lol.
jesus. ive never had this problem until the last couple days. wtf microsoft??
Is this still valid?
Yes!
Here a powershell script to delete and recreate the lines. You can run is it Powershell ISE:
if (-NOT ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator"))
{
Write-Warning "You do not have Administrator rights to run this script! Please re-run as Administrator."
break
}
Remove-Item -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU' -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Remove-Item -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags' -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
New-Item -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell' -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell' -Name 'FolderType' -PropertyType String -Value 'NotSpecified' -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Write-Output "Registry modifications completed."
Yes...someone please grow up and build a better system than windows! Thanks...hope this solves my issues...
24 cores processors 64gb of ram 7000mb nvme.... windows 11 is a fucking slow and people saying is "normal"
Thank you this actually works!
my explorer still lagg 🥲
Done it works well thanks
Glad to hear it!