[who_would_fardels_bear]

My current version of Windows 10 seems to already have that problem. In trying to recreate the list of Recent files it takes longer and longer. I believe this is because some of the files in Recent are no longer located where they once were. This causes File Explorer to hang as it waits a minute or so for each missing file to somehow magically appear.

I had to clear out all my Recent files in order to get File Explorer to stop being dodgy.

I noticed similar locking after our Sys Admins moved some major network shares around and File Explorer hung trying to locate the missing/renamed shares.

I'm sure there's some sort of timeout value I could potentially alter in the ocean referred to as the Registry, but I don't have time to look for something that my company may have locked down through policy.

[dayglored]

And many of those timeouts are hard-coded into the operating system functions. Even the Registry can’t touch them.