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Windows 11's File Explorer is now faster at deleting large files, in a rare speed win from Microsoft
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sanitation lemmy.today sanitation@lemmy.today
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ExtremeDullard piefed.social ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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Now that agentic AI garbage will wipe your entire hard drive before you even have time to pull the plug.

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SpacePanda mander.xyz SpacePanda@mander.xyz
Joined: 2025-06-19
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Probably deletes faster than it takes to open the start menu or an explorer window

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FuglyDuck lemmy.world FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-15
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I’m so confused as to who needs to delete files quickly.

Load files? Yes. But deleting them?

If you’re worried about an fbi raid or something, just stick a can of thermite above the disk and blow torch to get it lit; or something.

For everything else there’s just good data security.

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siravious lemmy.world siravious@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-23
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Great. Delete the tracking IDs next

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Einskjaldi lemmy.world Einskjaldi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-26
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I’m so confused as to who needs to delete files quickly. Load files? Yes. But deleting them? If you’re worried about an fbi raid or something, just stick a can of thermite above the disk and blow torch to get it lit; or something. For everything else there’s just good data security.

Windows can just be very sluggish in moving files in any way when there's a large volume in number or size.

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Victor lemmy.world victorz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-14
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Why would deleting a large file take any different amount of time than deleting a small file?

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FuglyDuck lemmy.world FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-15
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Windows can just be very sluggish in moving files in any way when there's a large volume in number or size.

I guess my point is that there’s very few people that are actually concerned by how quickly a file is deleted

It’s just a weird thing to brag about.

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Funwayguy lemmy.world Funwayguy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-09
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Windows has sunk so low that a partial fix of a basic file operation that MS repeatedly crippled is supposedly an achievement worth reporting about. The bar is buried in hell and the OS struggles to pass even that.

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Einskjaldi lemmy.world Einskjaldi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-26
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I guess my point is that there’s very few people that are actually concerned by how quickly a file is deleted It’s just a weird thing to brag about.

It is if it's maxing your hdd and make doing other things slow

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