W10 Right Click on Taskbar File Explorer really slow.

[blairmahaffy]

I have a W10 ASUS ROG laptop. When I right click on the File Explorer icon on the task bar it is really slow to open the file list; 30 to 40 seconds. Once it opens once, it is quick for awhile and then crawls again.

Everything else is fast. If I left click on it, it pops up right away. If I right click on other task bar icons they come up right away. If I right click on a folder on the desktop, or double click, they come up immediately.

Just this one thing. It almost seems like it is gathering data or something; maybe the most recently used folders?

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[ShakedG]

Try to open task manager, then go to the performance tab, and then try to trigger this issue. When it is loading track the usage of everything in the task manager. My guess is that it's the disk usage that is going to be abnormally high.

 

[blairmahaffy]

Try to open task manager, then go to the performance tab, and then try to trigger this issue. When it is loading track the usage of everything in the task manager. My guess is that it's the disk usage that is going to be abnormally high.

I hadn't thought of that. Alas, though, it doesn't even tickle the computer. Thanks, though; good thought!

Something else that I'm trying to figure out is that I think sometimes it doesn't come up at all. I haven't sorted out whether I'm impatient or it really isn't happening.

 

[ShakedG]

Could it be during the first few minutes after boot? W10 is pretty optimized when it comes to that, but who knows maybe it's because it's launching other programs.

 

[jasonbongreen]

I had this exact same issue. Items pinned in your Windows 10 Quick Access menu in File Explorer also show under the "Pinned" section of the File Explorer taskbar right-click menu. In my case, I had added a folder that I access via a VPN connection over the internet. Looking for that folder which didn't exist when the VPN wasn't connected would cause windows not to display the right-click menu for a very long time (minutes!). It would have the side effect of breaking the right-click menus of other icons on my taskbar. To make this more confusing to troubleshoot, pinning these types of folders worked fine in Windows 8!

My advice would be to clear out your Quick Access menu of all links (you can always add them again). Your Recent Items could be offenders too, so clear those as well.

 

[BesnardX]

I had this exact same issue. Items pinned in your Windows 10 Quick Access menu in File Explorer also show under the "Pinned" section of the File Explorer taskbar right-click menu. In my case, I had added a folder that I access via a VPN connection over the internet. Looking for that folder which didn't exist when the VPN wasn't connected would cause windows not to display the right-click menu for a very long time (minutes!).

My advice would be to clear out your Quick Access menu of all links (you can always add them again). Your Recent Items could be offenders too, so clear those as well.

Jason's solution worked for me (in my case, a LAN folder was the guilty shortcut).
I had a LAN folder pinned in my Quick Access menu, which migrated to that pinned-list in the taskbar when I upgraded to Windows 10. By simply un-pinning that LAN folder from the list, my right-click menu is now loading in a split-second!

 

[QuentinSc]

Just create an account to thank this guy !
Covid19 time, homeoffice, pinned sync directory in my explorer.....
Very slow when I opened some file or right click....

I'M HAPPY, THANK YOU 4 YEARS LATER (yes this problem still exist.....)