{"id":1179569,"date":"2023-09-06T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1179569"},"modified":"2023-09-06T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:00:00","slug":"windows-file-explorer-gets-nostalgic-speed-boost-thanks-to-one-weird-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1179569","title":{"rendered":"Windows File Explorer Gets Nostalgic Speed Boost Thanks To One Weird Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exploit for a bug in Windows appears to increase the performance of File Explorer in Microsoft&#8217;s flagship operating system. From a report: Spotted over the weekend by Xitter user @VivyVCCS, the hack is triggered by a swift jab of the F11 key to switch File Explorer in and out of full-screen mode. According to the post, load performance is improved markedly.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Windows+File+Explorer+Gets+Nostalgic+Speed+Boost+Thanks+To+One+Weird+Bug%3A+https%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F09%2F06%2F163235%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/twitter_icon_large-191.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F09%2F06%2F163235%2Fwindows-file-explorer-gets-nostalgic-speed-boost-thanks-to-one-weird-bug%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/facebook_icon_large-96.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/09\/06\/163235\/windows-file-explorer-gets-nostalgic-speed-boost-thanks-to-one-weird-bug?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/09\/06\/163235\/windows-file-explorer-gets-nostalgic-speed-boost-thanks-to-one-weird-bug?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows File Explorer Gets Nostalgic Speed Boost Thanks To One Weird Bug<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exploit for a bug in Windows appears to increase the performance of File Explorer in Microsoft&#8217;s flagship operating system. From a report: Spotted over the weekend by Xitter user @VivyVCCS, the hack is triggered by a swift jab of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1179569\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1179570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,110],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1179569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slashdot","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-slashdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1179570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}