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Downloads folder slow to load/sort in Windows 10

Frane Borozan - March 13, 2017

If you are like me you probably love to download various stuff from the internet and then over time when you have a lot of files in the downloads folder it is slow to load, or when you want to sort by date for example it takes forever or never finishes.

What happens here is is downloads folder is optimized as pictures folder so probably windows is trying to generate a thumbnail of the files/picture.

Here is the solution:

  1. Right click on the downloads folder in windows explorer
  2. You need to go to Customize tab > Select General Items and apply this to all the subfolders as well
    Downloads folder slow to load2Now you downloads folder will load just fine :-)
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12 Responses

  • Piet Pietersen June 28, 2018 at 1:26 pm

    Just wanted to say THANKS! This helped me big time.

    Reply
  • Norman August 25, 2018 at 3:51 am

    It took a while to find your post, but also, THANKS!

    Reply
  • Tomi Javanainen August 28, 2018 at 10:10 am

    THANK YOU FOR THIS! I’ve been so frustrated with this issue and now the sorting by date ACTUALLY WORKS!

    Reply
  • Steven August 29, 2018 at 12:48 pm

    Now that was a surprise. Must’ve been all the items stuffed in unzipped archives that were slowing it down. Thanks!

    Reply
  • Joe February 22, 2019 at 1:32 pm

    Why? WHY? I’ve suffered through this odd behavior for 2+ years, could not take it anymore… and with one google search, I find it’s not me, it’s my PC. Thank you!

    Reply
  • Bob February 26, 2019 at 6:36 pm

    Thanks this really helped.

    Reply
  • Tim April 11, 2019 at 2:26 pm

    Bravo! Thanks for the tip. This problem has bugged me for a long time.

    Reply
  • Dan April 16, 2019 at 11:19 am

    Thank you!

    Reply
  • Sokkyoku May 15, 2019 at 3:05 pm

    Thanks for documenting this fix, I’d been suffering from the issue for a good year now. That’s definitely a dodgy assumption from Microsoft that people only download pictures…

    Reply
  • Meg May 25, 2019 at 2:58 am

    Amazing. Can’t believe this isn’t the default selection by Windows.

    I’ve suffered from the slow loading problem for so long.

    Reply
  • güvenlik kamerası September 8, 2022 at 2:00 pm

    not working for me
    Any other suggestion

    Reply
    • Frane Borozan October 13, 2022 at 8:10 am

      unfortunately no

      Reply

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