Windows 11's File Explorer will soon unzip files faster

In brief: If you frequently deal with zipped files, File Explorer should soon perform notably better during extraction. Developers have optimized the feature in the latest Windows 11 Preview Build. It's the next step in Microsoft's ongoing effort to improve archived files. Microsoft tweaked the performance of File Explorer when extracting zip files in the latest Windows 11 Insiders Preview. The update should boost speed, especially when unzipping a large archive of small files. The change arrives in Windows 11 Build 27818, released to Insiders on the Canary Channel on Wednesday. Microsoft mentioned it without fanfare in the "Fixes" section of the build's changelog. "Did some more work to improve the performance of extracting zipped files in File Explorer, particularly where you're unzipping a large number of small files," the log reads. Some metrics regarding the performance boost would have been nice, but we'll have to take Redmond at its word. Let us know in the comments if you've ... Read full article.