XYplorer Beta Club

Is it just me or is this program getting sluggish over time....I cant even scroll down a list of file and folders where it gets hung up for a few seconds before I can continue.

Now it freezes when trying to do a simple rename of a folder on a external drive.

Is there a place I can download older versions that worked well when I first purchased this?

You can download old versions from https://www.xyplorer.com/freezer.php but it is usually not the updates to blame for sluggish appearance but rather settings one may have changed over time.

If not already done, excluding XY from your Antivirus App is a good first step.

If still sluggish, check "Help/Various Information" and hold Ctrl when clicking on it.
This will give you a list of settings that might slow down XY.

In fact, I'm obsessed with timing the app because I'm a speed freak, and I'll spend hours just to shave off one more nanosecond, and I can tell you that the app gets faster and faster with almost every release.

@admin of course you are going to say this hahaha

And that's all you have to say?
Did the pointers I provided help you find a solution for your problem?

I'm sure admin would have some proof for his claims about speed (and you could find several statements in this regard in the change log) but that's not really the point here.

@napleswebguy of course you are going to say XY is fault for your system filled with crap and being sluggish hahaha.

It's sluggish. napleswebguy is right, it wasn't like this before. Maybe the last 5-6 years.

I use it on my box and my laptop and it loves to freeze..."XYplorer not responding"...several times a day on both. Sometimes to the point of having to manually kill xyplorer.exe. Often times it will halt my workflow and I forget where I was in the middle of some heavy multi-tasking. One of my favorites is when I rename a file then it reverts back to the old name and I have to re-select it and rename it again.

It's feature creep, no doubt.

Considering the time I've invested in XY and the many indispensable features, I live with it.

Don't get butt hurt fanboys, just 'cause it's not happening to you doesn't mean it doesn't. Out in the wild if anything can go wrong it will. Spare me the commentary from the peanut gallery.