[userbinator]

If you've ever used any other applications written in pure Win32 you would know why --- the efficiency difference is enormous. They did start using more managed code in the system starting with Vista, which resulted in all the complaints about it being slow and bloated. I suspect there's been even more of it added since then, because the Win10 explorer.exe on a recent quad-core i7 system with an SSD still manages to respond more slowly to actions like opening a folder than XP's on a 15-year-old PC with a regular HDD...

[maxxxxx]

"If you've ever used any other applications written in pure Win32 you would know why"

I have written pure Win32 and I know that...