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by misone 212 days ago
Try dragging a file and accidentally hovering over an unavailable network drive. Explorer will freeze for 5+ minutes with no timeout or cancel option. The entire UI locks up while it waits for a TCP timeout on an obviously unreachable resource. Been reported since Windows XP, still not fixed.
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Does enabling the setting "Launch folder windows in a separate process" fix the problem?