How to fix slow loading folders green loading bar in Windows

Does your folder load forever before your files show up? Try this!
1. Press Start and type "Folder Options"
2. Click the "View" tab
3. Click "Reset Folders"
4. Under "Advanced settings:" scroll down and
enable the box next to "Launch folder windows in a separate process".
5. Click apply and close all the folders
6. Open any folders and it should work faster now
Cheers and enjoy!

[highnoon]

Perfect. I was worried my external HDD was slowing down/ dying because it was taking forever to load, but this quick tutorial has fixed it. Thanks!

[Majorbobbage]

WOW!! Thank you TOTALLY fixed my problem. It was so annoying and stressful and you've brought a small measure of peace into my life, thank you.

[jevthefreelancer]

Confirming it works! Saved me a whole lotta headaches for when I'm editing and file explorer decides it wants to either stop working or load slowly. Thank you so much!

[VincentPascoe]

Thank you! going to watch your other videos just because it was so nice for you to put all the info in the description

[elirix]

Thank you man, i have been wondering why the explorer has been so slow for the past couple of weeks, you saved me!

[littlemisscrazygirl]

I'm sorry but it didn't work for us. We have a folder with six years worth of information. If you have any ideas please let me know. Thank you.

[procheathepitai]

I have thousands of files in a single folder sometimes and it takes MINUTES to load, especially when I move a folder and open it up for the "first time." Im so irritated that microsoft doesn't do this by default. Thank you so much.

[kex]

This issue has been plaguing me for years. Thank you so much.

[vishalgreene]

This worked today while on a terminal server I was working on lol, hundreds of users are thankful for you buddy.

[Sora-ch]

Deleted all of my files and then found this video, it worked but rip my deleted files.

[sinbrujulasinagenda]

I had some .MOV files showing as weird matrix like green thumbnails and THIS solution fixed that! I had been formating my pc, installing windows 10/11, different antiviruses, etc. THANK YOU!!!!

[yer]

Short and straight to the point, thank you so much!

[Remslem]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! This had me tearing my hear out almost! <3 <3 <3

[Theagames]

This actually works! I was not expecting that to work, but it did!

[RBXGames]

Thanks so much! Couldn't load my files that I just wanted to upload and this trick just made it up in 1 second. :)

[gqeqslv]

I was having a hard time because of this issue. Thank you very much

[reccdafqboom]

I know this was like 2 years ago, but it helped me tysm!

[zzdoodzz]

Finally a fix that worked for this issue. Tried indexing, didnt fix it. but this did, thanks

[NoahtheGameplayer]

Wow this actually Works!

I'm going to share this to everyone, everyone need this right now

[Kolateak_]

Holy crap it loaded up fast
Here's me thinking the previous fix that made it take like 5 seconds was amazing, which then stopped working