This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off File Explorer window preloading for faster launch times for your account in Windows 11.
Starting with Windows 11 build 26220.7271 (Dev and Beta 25H2), Microsoft is exploring preloading File Explorer in the background to help improve File Explorer launch performance. This shouldn’t be visible to you, outside of File Explorer hopefully launching faster when you need to use it.
If you do encounter any issues, please file them in the Feedback Hub under Files Folders and Online Storage > File Explorer Performance, or Files Folders and Online Storage > File Explorer.
Contents
Option One: Enable or Disable Preloading File Explorer in Folder Options
Option Two: Enable or Disable Preloading File Explorer using REG file
Option One
Enable or Disable Preloading File Explorer in Folder Options
1 Open Folder Options.
2 Click/tap on the View tab. (see screenshot below)
3Check (enable - default) or uncheck (disable) Enable window preloading for faster launch times for what you want.
4 Click/tap on OK.
Option Two
Enable or Disable Preloading File Explorer using REG file
1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.
2 Enable Preloading File Explorer
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShouldPrelaunchFileExplorer"=dword:00000001
3 Disable Preloading File Explorers
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShouldPrelaunchFileExplorer"=dword:00000000
4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
7 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
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This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off File Explorer window preloading for faster launch times for your account in Windows 11.
Starting with Windows 11 build 26220.7271 (Dev and Beta 25H2), Microsoft is exploring preloading File Explorer in the background to help improve File Explorer launch performance. This shouldn’t be visible to you, outside of File Explorer hopefully launching faster when you need to use it.
If you do encounter any issues, please file them in the Feedback Hub under Files Folders and Online Storage > File Explorer Performance, or Files Folders and Online Storage > File Explorer.
Enable or Disable Preloading File Explorer in Folder Options
1 Open Folder Options.
2 Click/tap on the View tab. (see screenshot below)
3 Check (enable - default) or uncheck (disable) Enable window preloading for faster launch times for what you want.
4 Click/tap on OK.
Enable or Disable Preloading File Explorer using REG file
1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.
This is the default setting.
(Contents of REG file for reference)
(Contents of REG file for reference)
4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
7 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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