

You will also see this sort of creeping green bar behaviour if you add a networked location to Explorer. Related: How to use Quick Access in Explorer in Windows 10 Disconnect network drives Folder views are remembered, so if you switch to List or Details view then the next time you access the folder then that view will be used again. It is therefore faster and so you are less likely to see the green bar. Whether you see the green progress bar depends on the view selected and a text listing avoids the need to create and display thumbnails. Select List viewĬhange the Explorer view to List on the View toolbar. The green bar will be reduced or even eliminated. Sort orders are remembered, so next time the folder is opened it will be faster. Set the sort order of files in a folder to Name by clicking View to open the ribbon, clicking Sort by and selecting Name. Sorting by size, date, and other attributes is slow.

The sort order can be a factor and if you have selected a sort order other than the default alphabetical listing by name, then it takes time to put the files into order and when there is a lot of files, it can cause the green progress bar to appear. Organise them into subfolders so there aren’t so many to deal with at a time.

For example, reduce the delay when opening a folder by reducing the number of images. Getting rid of the green bar that creeps across the top of Explorer windows involves reducing the amount of work Explorer has to do. Security software may need to check a lot of files, which takes time Changing the default sort order to date, size and so on, involves Explorer in extra work, first reading these properties from each file and then sorting them into order. Explorer has to create the thumbnail images from each file and it takes time to do this There are a lot of image files in a folder and the view is set to thumbnails.There are several possibilities and the green bar can appear when: The question is, what can it be busy doing? It is performing a task that is taking a long time and so it shows a green bar so that you can see its progress. The green bar is Explorer’s way of indicating that it is busy doing something. What is going on and how can it be stopped? This can happen occasionally to everyone, but to some people it is a constant irritation. Here is the reason and how to minimise it. When opening an Explorer window you sometimes have to wait while a green bar very slowly works its way across the address box at the top.
