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I hope they improve the start menu search and prevent cases when right clicking a file can freeze the PC frequently.

jaspax 6y ago
Right-click freeze has literally never happened to me. Check that you don't have misbehaving shell extensions: the most common culprit is a program that adds its own item to the right-click menu but doesn't play well with others and winds up hanging when the shell asks it what it wants to do.
- anonunivgrad 6y ago
  I second the shell extension thing. This is the tool to use: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
- alkonaut 6y ago
  This seems like issues that just shouldn't be allowed to happen. An unresponsive extension, a network drive not answering etc should never need to block the UI - yet it always did in Windows. They really really need to make all such things async and simply show the context menus without the extensions, or show a spinner when explorer wants to show a slow network location. That the message pump of the explorer windows stop because a server in another country is down must be a design that is extremely hard to change in windows explorer - because they have surely seen this problem.
  - gruez 6y ago
    >They really really need to make all such things async and simply show the context menus without the extensions but then you have another problem: if the system load is high (eg. hard drive is busy), then context menu items would randomly disappear. That's arguably worse than before, because it happens randomly. >or show a spinner you mean this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_wait_cursor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_wait_cursor
    - wtetzner 6y ago
      I think they meant show a spinner in place of the blocking entry.
formercoder 6y ago
I just windows-q and type the name of the application I want and it always works. Don’t even know what the start menu looks like.

Right-click freeze has literally never happened to me. Check that you don't have misbehaving shell extensions: the most common culprit is a program that adds its own item to the right-click menu but doesn't play well with others and winds up hanging when the shell asks it what it wants to do.

anonunivgrad 6y ago
I second the shell extension thing. This is the tool to use: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
alkonaut 6y ago
This seems like issues that just shouldn't be allowed to happen. An unresponsive extension, a network drive not answering etc should never need to block the UI - yet it always did in Windows. They really really need to make all such things async and simply show the context menus without the extensions, or show a spinner when explorer wants to show a slow network location. That the message pump of the explorer windows stop because a server in another country is down must be a design that is extremely hard to change in windows explorer - because they have surely seen this problem.
- gruez 6y ago
  >They really really need to make all such things async and simply show the context menus without the extensions but then you have another problem: if the system load is high (eg. hard drive is busy), then context menu items would randomly disappear. That's arguably worse than before, because it happens randomly. >or show a spinner you mean this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_wait_cursor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_wait_cursor
  - wtetzner 6y ago
    I think they meant show a spinner in place of the blocking entry.

formercoder 6y ago

I just windows-q and type the name of the application I want and it always works. Don’t even know what the start menu looks like.