What should I do when Win8/Win8.1 opens a folder?

Idea 1: Turn off Windows Defender

If you don't have third-party protection software installed, the system will open Windows Defender by default. By default, scanning files will take up a lot of system resources. Will cause the fake folder to open when opening the folder; if other protection software is installed, Windows Defender should close itself, if it is not closed, close the "Windows Defender Service" service in the service.

If you only want to use Windows Defender as the base protection, you need to set a special case:

Open Windows Defender, click the “Set” tab, there will be a phase on the left side. The corresponding exception settings. You can set some files, folders as an exception, or you can set a type or a process that is not checked. Of course, the exception setting is that you need to know that the programs you have are harmless. Without adding an exception, the scan results are only valid for this boot.

Idea 2: Restart the desktop window manager

1. Press the “Ctrl+Alt+Del” key combination on the keyboard to open the “Task Manager” in the “Process”. Select the card to find the "Desktop Window Manager", end it;

2, the desktop will become the background only state, continue to select the "Files" menu in the Task Manager "Run a new task";

3, enter ""explorer” and press Enter, the system will restart the desktop window manager;

need to pay attention to the use of this method will already The opened folder is closed and needs to be opened again. If there is any saved work, please pay attention to save before operation.

Idea 3: Turn off file preview, open the folder window function in a separate process

1. In the control panel, find the folder option, switch to “ ”tab;

2. In the folder options, switch to the “View” tab, check “Always show icons, never show thumbnails” and “during separate processes” Open the folder window & rdquo;. Save and exit.

Idea 4: Close the index and increase the response rate

Right-click on the target folder, select “Properties", and then click the “Advanced” button under the “General” tab In the pop-up dialog box, cancel “ in addition to the file attributes, it is also allowed to index the contents of this drive file & rdquo; in front of the check mark.

For the drive properties, in the "General" tab, uncheck the "Also on the file properties, but also allow indexing of the contents of this drive file" (not recommended for system disk) Operation will take a long time and is not necessarily successful).

In addition, according to the feedback from users, the size limit of the thumbnail cache file is canceled in the Windows 8.1 2014 Update (17025) version, so if you appear to be suspended due to the slow generation of thumbnails, If you don't want to completely turn off the thumbnail preview function, you may wish to wait a moment, and the next time you open the same folder, there should be no suspended animation.