

The slowness happens even if you are not actually working with this folder/item in file explorer - Windows 10 pre-empts that you "might" want to access it, and goes to prepares results for you.

Longer available (another computer turned off, network down or whatever) Also sometimes you can have a a badly behaved app returning file type info, or right click info that is slow. Usually it is something like a network folder that is no I have always found slowness in windows 10 file explorer to be due to some item that has ended up in in a pinned list, or quick access list where that item itself has become slow to open or access.
