{"id":596,"date":"2015-12-25T08:42:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T07:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2015-12-25T08:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T07:42:46","slug":"windows-taking-forever-show-contents-downloads-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/windows-taking-forever-show-contents-downloads-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"Is windows taking forever to show the contents of Downloads folder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mine does, and it&#8217;s varying from 10 seconds to almost 30 seconds. It&#8217;s very furstrating\u00a0since I frequently open this folder to find whatever\u00a0I downloaded trough the browser.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s\u00a0a very simple fix to this problem:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Guide.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-597\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-597\" src=\"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Guide-300x206.png\" alt=\"Guide\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Guide-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Guide.png 524w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right click on your Downloads folder and select Properties, then choose the Customize tab. Choose &#8220;General Items&#8221; from the drop-down box and hit Apply!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mine does, and it&#8217;s varying from 10 seconds to almost 30 seconds. It&#8217;s very furstrating\u00a0since I frequently open this folder to find whatever\u00a0I downloaded trough the browser. There&#8217;s\u00a0a very simple fix to this problem: Right click on your Downloads folder and select Properties, then choose the Customize tab. Choose &#8220;General Items&#8221; from the drop-down box [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is windows taking forever to show the contents of Downloads folder? - Stigern.Net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/windows-taking-forever-show-contents-downloads-folder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is windows taking forever to show the contents of Downloads folder? - Stigern.Net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mine does, and it&#8217;s varying from 10 seconds to almost 30 seconds. 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