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Use secret hack to speed up File Explorer

When you search or navigate File Explorer, Windows flashes a ‘working on it’ message (see screenshot below). Some users online have worked out a way to remove this, claiming that it speeds up File Explorer.

All you have to do is open File Explorer, then tap the F11 button on your

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