During the process of using Win8/Win8.1 operating system, you may encounter the phenomenon of opening folder suspended animation, and the green loading bar of the address bar moves slowly. This situation is generally more common when opening a folder that holds a large number of executable programs, images, or videos.
Idea 1: Turn off Windows Defender
If you don't have third-party protection software installed, the system will open Windows Defender by default. By default, scanning files will take up a lot of system resources and will cause open files. If you install other protection software, Windows Defender should shut itself down, if you do not close the "Windows Defender Service" service in the service.
If you only want to use Windows Defender as the base protection, you need to set a special case:
Open Windows Defender, click the "Settings" tab, there is a corresponding exception setting on the left side. You can set some files, folders as an exception, or you can set a type or a process that is not checked. Of course, the exception setting is that you need to know that the programs you have are harmless. Without adding an exception, the scan results are only valid for this boot.
Idea 2: Restart the desktop window manager
1. Press the “Ctrl+Alt+Del” key combination of the keyboard to open the “Task Manager” and select the “Desktop Window Manager” in the “Process” card. End;
2, the desktop will become the background only state, continue to select "Run New Task" under the "File" menu in the Task Manager;
3, enter "explorer" and back Car, the system will restart the desktop window manager;
need to pay attention to this method will open the opened folder, you need to open again, if there is no saved work, please pay attention to save before the operation.
Idea 3: Close file preview, open the folder window function in a separate process
1, find "folder options" in the control panel, switch to the "view" tab;
2 Switch to the "View" tab in the folder options, check "Always show icons, never show thumbnails" and "Open folder window in a separate process". Save and exit.
Idea 4: Close the index, improve the response rate
Right-click on the target folder, select "Properties", then click the "Advanced" button under the "General" tab, and cancel in the pop-up dialog box. In addition to the file attributes, the check mark in front of the contents of this drive file is also allowed.
For the drive properties, in the "General" tab, uncheck the "Allow the index of the contents of this drive file in addition to the file properties" (not recommended for the system disk, it will cost Longer time and not necessarily successful).
In addition, according to the feedback from users of IT Home, the size limit of the thumbnail cache file is canceled in the Windows 8.1 2014 Update (17025) version, so if you appear because of the slow generation of thumbnails, the system If you don't want to completely turn off the thumbnail preview function, you may wish to wait for it. The next time you open the same folder, there should be no suspended animation.
The above is the IT home Xiaobian for everyone to solve some Win8/Windows 8.1 open folder fake death solution, you can give it a try, if the same problem occurs on Windows Vista/Windows7, may wish to follow the original idea Give it a try.