Browsing OneDrive folders with Explorer on Windows 11 Slow
Dec 16
Browsing folders that are synced by OneDrive is extremely slow. Every navigation action takes a 10+ second delay, even if the folder is empty. I found a similar issue description on the Microsoft Forums without fix. Common is that the issue occurs since the upgrade to Windows 11. When monitoring Explorer I noticed that during the delay a massive amount of registry queries is performed by explorer in the HKCU\Software\Classes\ space. See Screenshort Sysinternals Process Monitor
Strange is that when navigating the same folders using the tree on the left part of Windows Explorer screen the issue doesn't occur. Same for file open/save dialogues, they don't suffer from the performance issue.
I have already tried enabling the old Ribbon in Windows explorer without any success.
Running latest version of OneDrive (22.248.1127.0001)
Anyone who has a solution to this issue?
Update The problem has disappeared on my laptop. I can't pinpoint to a specific update, but my current OS is Windows 23H2 Build 22631.4317 and OneDrive version is 24.186.0915.0004.
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Accepted answer · original discussion
Jan 13
I tried to solve the issue by uninstalling OneDrive, removing all OneDrive Application and Data folders from the computer using the following script.
:: Removing remaining OneDrive folders.
rd "%UserProfile%\OneDrive" /s /q
rd "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\OneDrive" /s /q
rd "%LocalAppData%\OneDrive" /s /q
rd "%ProgramData%\Microsoft OneDrive" /s /q
rd "%systemdrive%\OneDriveTemp" /s /q
:: Removing remaining OneDrive registry keys.
REG DELETE "HKCR\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" /f
REG DELETE "HKCR\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" /f
REG DELETE "HKCR\Software\SyncEngines\Providers\OneDrive" /f
Did a reinstall of latest OneDrive version with /allusers parameter.
After configuration and syncing OneDrive I started adding also SharePoint folders that I was syncing. Initially it looked ok, but after a number of folders the issue is back again. Will continue to zoom in on what SharePoint location is causing the issue. Maybe removing them one by one is enough to solve the issue and track down the root cause...
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