Near the end of January I was pointed to a twitter thread where a Windows user with a powerful machine was hitting random hangs in explorer. Lots of unscientific theories were being proposed. I don’t generally do random analysis of strangers’ performance problems but the case sounded interesting so I thought I’d take a look. Update: if you are running Windows 11 then this issue is now fixed for you, according to the status updates on this github issue. If you are running Windows 10 then… sorry, ...