Short: If you often deal with zipd files, the file explorer should soon perform better during extraction. Developers have adapted the facility in the latest Windows 11 Preview Build. This is the next step in Microsoft’s ongoing effort to improve stored files.
Microsoft twisted the performance of the file explorer when removing the zip files in the preview of the latest Windows 11 interiors. The update should promote speed, especially when inadvertently a large collection of small files. The change comes in Windows 11 Build 27818, which has been released to internal sources on the canary channel on Wednesday. Microsoft mentioned it without pomp in the “Fix” section of the Build’s Changelog.
In the log it is written, “Some more tasks to improve the performance of extracting zipd files in the file explorer, especially where you are unjusting a large number of small files,” reads the log.
Some metrics would have been good about promoting performance, but we have to take Redmund on its word. Tell us in the comments whether you have tried this special construction, work with large zip files filled with small items regularly, and have noticed the improvement in speed.
The zip extraction upgrade makes some archive handling on improvements, Microsoft began rolling out last year. The previous update added native support to the file explorer to open and see new compressed file formats including RAR, 7Z, TAR, and other niche collection types. However, it still depends on external utilities to remove those files. Another file explorer-related update set an issue where the home section would not be loaded correctly, which shows random floating text that reads “name”.
In addition to zip extraction adaptation, the build 27818 removes a feature from the file explorer. After installing this update, users will no longer look at the “suggested tasks”, when the phone number or future dates are copied to the clipboard. The suggested tasks offered options for creating a calendar event from the copied date or launching the dialer app for the phone number. That dialer app was usually Skype, but Microsoft would permanently shut down the popular communication app on 5 May to push users into teams.
Microsoft posted a complete set of change details on his Insider blog, which is interested in seeing what else can be in the upcoming stable release.
