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One similarly ignored bug that springs to mind is the performance of the "Send To" context menu item in File Explorer. I always dreaded dragging my mouse over i
by s0l1dsnak3123 4y ago
One similarly ignored bug that springs to mind is the performance of the "Send To" context menu item in File Explorer. I always dreaded dragging my mouse over it by accident.
- notriddle 4y agoThat is a design flaw that cannot be fixed without breaking the API: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190528-00/?p=102522 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190528-00/?p=10... I'm pretty sure there are a lot of those.
- warkdarrior 4y agoApparently nobody at Microsoft thought about the Windows registry as a database, which of course needs indexing to be performant.
- account42 4y agoThey could also cache that computed menu and proactively update the cache whenever the relevant keys are changed. Either way, pretty far from "cannot be fixed without breaking the API".