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by dmitrygr 244 days ago
> seems to be one big single threaded process

This option has existed since win2k IIRC:

Tools > Folder Options > View > Launch folder windows in a separate processed
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wkat4242 243 days ago
I don't think that actually fixes the issue though. Perhaps there's some shared message queue that's blocking things? I don't know. I know I've had that on in the past and it didn't solve it.
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dmitrygr 242 days ago
After enabling that, at most one single window hangs, not the entire explorer ui.
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