This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off File Explorer window preloading for faster launch times for your account in Windows 11.
Starting with Windows 11 build 26220.7271 (Dev and Beta 25H2), Microsoft is exploring preloading File Explorer in the background to help improve File Explorer launch performance. This shouldn’t be visible to you, outside of File Explorer hopefully launching faster when you need to use it.
If you do encounter any issues, please file them in the Feedback Hub under Files Folders and Online Storage > File Explorer Performance, or Files Folders and Online Storage > File Explorer.
If you don't have preloading File Explorer available yet in the builds above and would like to try it now, then you can enable it using the command below with ViVeTool.vivetool /enable /id:58778013
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Contents
- Option One: Enable or Disable Preloading File Explorer in Folder Options
- Option Two: Enable or Disable Preloading File Explorer using REG file
1 Open Folder Options.
2 Click/tap on the View tab. (see screenshot below)
3 Check (enable - default) or uncheck (disable) Enable window preloading for faster launch times for what you want.
4 Click/tap on OK.
1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.
2 Enable Preloading File Explorer
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_ON_Preloading_FileExplorer_in_background.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShouldPrelaunchFileExplorer"=dword:000000013 Disable Preloading File Explorers
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_OFF_Preloading_FileExplorer_in_background.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShouldPrelaunchFileExplorer"=dword:000000004 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
5 If you have Smart App Control turned on, you will need to unblock the downloaded REG file.
6 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
7 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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