slow renaming of folders on Win10

[admin]

I did try completely uninstalling XYPlorer and reinstalling it, no difference there. Except now I can not drag and drop files from and to XPlorer from/to Desktop. Drag and drop works fine from/to any other folder just not from Desktop. Totally weird.

That looks like a rights issue. Run as XYplorer as normal user, not as administrator, and the issue should go away. Note that this is caused by Windows UAC, not by XY.

[admin]

This is not normal. Do you have any 3rd party software running that watches the file system?

Nothing comes to mind. I use Defender and Malwarebytes for protection. I did use Kaspersky until about 3 months ago but I had completely removed it. Apart from that, there should be nothing else. What 3rd party software did you have in mind, as a hint?

AV, custom themes, check your task manager...

[rudek]

I did try completely uninstalling XYPlorer and reinstalling it, no difference there. Except now I can not drag and drop files from and to XPlorer from/to Desktop. Drag and drop works fine from/to any other folder just not from Desktop. Totally weird.

That looks like a rights issue. Run as XYplorer as normal user, not as administrator, and the issue should go away. Note that this is caused by Windows UAC, not by XY.

I do run XY as a normal user...

[rudek]

This is not normal. Do you have any 3rd party software running that watches the file system?

Nothing comes to mind. I use Defender and Malwarebytes for protection. I did use Kaspersky until about 3 months ago but I had completely removed it. Apart from that, there should be nothing else. What 3rd party software did you have in mind, as a hint?

AV, custom themes, check your task manager...

Nope, nothing there. I tried disabling Defender and Malwarebytes again, but as long as I leave Windows Search indexing service running, the issue persists.

I forgot to mention that I am on a I7 3GHz 16GB RAM machine, so it is unlikely that the computer slows down due to search indexing, plus the indexing was minimal when i detected the issue as indexing has been finished weeks ago. So I deleted the index file and restarted indexing 2 days ago, indexing is now finished, but the issue persists.

[admin]

Do those renamed folders contain a huge number of items?
Do you use XYplorer's tagging? (How many items have you tagged?)

[rudek]

Do those renamed folders contain a huge number of items?

No, they are new folders most of the time, thus they are empty

Do you use XYplorer's tagging? (How many items have you tagged?)

No, I do not use tagging at all.

[admin]

Is your recycle bin extremely full?

[rudek]

Is your recycle bin extremely full?

Not really. I had 105 items in the recycle bin, which I now deleted.
I do have success though in eliminating the issue: I usually have 20-30 tabs open in Chrome and that eats up quite a lot of memory. I now deinstalled standard Chrome and installed Chrome Canary. After testing with ~10 tabs open, the issue seems to be gone. I am not 100% sure this is a definitive solution, and will reopen this ticket if I see it again.
Thanks for your prompt support in any case

[rudek]

Hi all, I wanted to check with you if there is any visibility on a solution for the issue in this post? Meanwhile I run XYp 18.30 and the newest official Win10 updates. The slowness when renaming a new folder while XYp is running is still the same and still annoying. If you Google "Win10 slow opening a new folder" you will see dozens of forums debating the same issue and dozens of solutions - but none worked so far. Any ideas?

[admin]

Unfortunately not. I have never seen the problem here, so I can't really see what to fix.

[rudek]

ok, thanks for your quick reply, as always