[graealex]

Not being connected to the work VPN already slows down my Windows to a near halt since a few unreachable network drives is all it takes to make Explorer go unresponsive.

Seems like engineers forget to test these things nowadays.

[Too]

If by ”nowadays” you mean the past 30 years. Slow network drives making Explorer go completely unresponsive has been a thing since Windows 95.

I’m more surprised to hear that bug still hasn’t been fixed. Luckily I don’t use Windows myself since many years ago.