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Edge painfully slow to load save file and download dialog box
Hello everyone, I don't know if this issue is still happening for a lot of people, but it happened with me yesterday and I just found out today what is causing it.
If you go to Edge settings and search for Download, look for the option called: Microsoft Defender SmartScreen and if it's on, toggle it off. This option is what was making my Edge take too long to start new downloads.
I hope this was helpful to someone.
Why cant microsoft never make anything reliable, always riddled with bugs, windows 10 and 11 as an OS are still a pain to navigate to exactly where you need, like we used to be able to, but no, we are forced with the basic mobile os front end.
edge and its forced none sense and ive noticed evertime i download a file, it takes ages for it to change from the OPEN and SAVE AS screen to actually show the file download progress bar after already telling it to save the file.
Then it can sometimes take upto 5 minutes for it to actually change.
Then we have its tab screen, after telling it what you want to see, but no, it forces everything in the media and news when its not even selected.
