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Grogster

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Posted: 08:52am 15 Aug 2021

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I have a USB3 SSD external drive connected to this(my last) Windoze machine(yes, connected to a USB3 port), and when I click on it or any of it's folders, I get the Windoze standard 'I'm too busy with other excrement' reply: "Working on it..."

An SSD is super-fast to access.
Why the delay?

In fact, accessing the USB3 external SSD drive is JUST AS SLOW as accessing an old spinning HDD under Windows.

Purely for interest sake, I plugged the exact same USB3 SSD drive into one of my Linux boxes(Puppy Linux setup as a NAS), and Linux picked it up right away - good.

Clicking on any folder, and they open INSTANTLY - something you would kinda expect with an SSD, as the latency figure for access in an SSD is extremely low.

So what's with the Windoze delays then?

...and they want us to upgrade to Windoze Eleven now...

Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops!

JohnS
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Posted: 01:33pm 15 Aug 2021

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A delay inserted by M$ which will be removed in Win11 to show how much faster it is?

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Posted: 02:04pm 15 Aug 2021

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Goksteroo
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Posted: 02:47pm 15 Aug 2021

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This may help....

Quote Open Folder Options > Set "Open File Explorer" to "This PC" in stead of "Quick Acces". Try WinKey + E now. If it opens fine, then the problem is with Quick access cache, which can be cleared by deleting the file f01b4d95cf55d32a.automaticDestinations-ms from the following directory, using Command Prompt.

%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations

Note: The above procedure clears your Quick access links. You'll have to manually add the links again.

phil99

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Posted: 01:23am 16 Aug 2021

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Have also had slow access to a USB3 thumb drive in W10, however my PC has an one USB2
port in which it works fine. If you have no USB2 ports try an old USB2 hub and see if that helps.

CaptainBoing

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Posted: 04:21pm 16 Aug 2021

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