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MicrosoftFile Explorer is slow when traversing files synced with OneDrive
Any news if Microsoft resolved this with patches or is the administrator full access on the regkey still the workaround?
I'm not sure if it was ever truly resolved. What ended up working for our environment (Win11 23H2 Multi-Session AVD), is creating a scheduled task that runs a PowerShell script at system startup. Our AVD hosts reboot at least once every couple of days due to scaling plan, so this script will run quite often to clean up the records that seem to cause the OneDrive traversing slow down.
The PowerShell script is a 1 liner:
Remove-Item -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\SyncRootManager\* -Recurse
Okay, thanks for sharing this! Its a joke that MS has not been able to fix this for years now.
This is exactly what we did. The registry key permissions discussed by others didn't make a difference in our environment. The scheduled task to remove the keys ended up being the fix for us.
It looks like KB5062660 is bringing a fix for this issue. But as it is a gradual rollout, I saw no difference here.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/july-22-2025-kb5062660-os-build-26100-4770-preview-9c5bc200-52b6-4c1a-be70-80df6bbfe9c3
- Fixed: Syncing more SharePoint sites to File Explorer might slow performance when navigating folders or opening the context menu. This can also affect how quickly files launch.
