Without knowing precisely how Explorer is structured, it's conceivable that there may be different dynamically-linked libraries and/or execution points for running the desktop and for the file explorer, in which case just having explorer.exe running in and of itself doesn't mean that new modules have to be loaded if explorer.exe process fires up. The solution could very well be to load the libraries involved in file browsing when the desktop opens.

Just guessing here. There was a time when there was a lot more horsepower required for GUI elements than folder browsing, but this is 2025, and explorer.exe probably uses orders of a magnitude more resources now than it did in 1995, because... well, who knows really. Probably to sell more ads and load up more data to their AI.

That, on modern hardware, they have to preload a fucking file browser so that it pops up faster is just an indication of what a steaming pile of garbage MS is. They had sweet spots with Win2k-WinXP and with Win7, but their incoherent need to be a whole bunch of contradictory things --- with AI! has led what was a rather iffy OS and UI experience to begin with to become a cluster fuck of incoherence.

I do most of my day to day work on MacOS and Gnome, and fortunately the Terminal services version I have to RDP into is Server 2016, but every time I have to work with Windows 11 I'm just stunned by just how awful it looks and how badly it behaves.

They did not monitor viruses. They monitored CO2. Sez so right in TFS.

TDS seems to be spread by mobile phones.

W0t? Twenty years late and a 100 million more?

Ayup - another warmed over conjob

The capacity of the government of a large jurisdiction like California, or more particularly the US, could bankrupt someone like Musk, so I say, bring it on. Within a decade Musk would have abandoned all efforts, or, even better, be stone cold broke (frankly billionaires shouldn't exist at all, and we should tax the living fuck out of them down to their last $200 million).

We're too afraid of these modern day Bond villains when we should be aiming every financial, and probably every real, cannon straight at them and putting them in a sense of mortal danger every minute of their waking lives, so that they literally piss themselves in terror at the though that "we the people" might decide to wipe them out for good.

Even in Central Europe where most lecce is nuclear, I could run a wood fired steam engine in my backyard and produce power for less than the municipal grid price.

Somewhere around 1990, pig piles of yellow pages would be delivered in neighbour hoods and businesses all over and go straight to the garbage. It took about three years for the infernal things to die.

Most jobs in a bureaucracy are useless and not productive. In ye olden deyz there were huge offices filled with pretty girls whose sole job was to make correspondence look pretty. An engineer would write a letter by hand in his chicken scratch, send it to the typing pool and after a week, they would return a draft done by a youngster with a typo in each paragraph. You would then mark it up and it would then go to a more senior and possibly less pretty lady to retype and you would get it back with maybe one typo per page. At that point it was already three weeks later and you then had to decide whether to return it again or mail it to the client. All those thousands upon thousands of jobs disappeared forty years ago when engineers started to type their own letters on an Apple IIe. There are however still vast numbers of people employed as data analysts and quants to name a couple, which are now in danger of death by AI.

The RF already won the war. The situation has been essentially static fir years. There is no way that Ukr will take their territories back - they are not able to. Therefore Ukr has to accept that and move on - rebuild what they have left.

Windows Vista was probably still worse. It could take 14 days to delete a file.

The Golden Age of any civilization is always in the past. The ancient Greeks already realized that.

Yes, that is because Jews can count money really well.

Yup, got to ask Schumer for the stats - he must be sitting on it.