Last week, we reported that Microsoft may be introducing a new feature that will enable File Explorer by default to speed up the process of opening and scrolling through the application.
Some initial tests were conducted to show the effectiveness of this process, and it was found that the feature did not seem to have much of a positive impact on users. It was found that pre-activating File Explorer seemed to consume more memory, but the benefits shown were not worth it when compared to not being activated by default.
Tests by Windows Latest found that activating File Explorer by default consumed 67MB of memory compared to 35MB of memory if activated normally, but in terms of access to shortcuts, icons, content and so on, there was not much difference that could be shown between the two ways of activating the software.
In fact, Windows Latest said that the speed difference could only be seen when video recording between the two File Explorer variants was slowed down to 0.25x speed. In short, for the average user, this difference is difficult to explain.
Even more disappointing is that the speed in terms of menu scrolling and accessing content is not much different either, showing that the "new way" to speed up access and use of File Explorer is not really worth it for now.
