Download file location laggy

This situation may occur after you click Open in the Open dialog box on the File menu, click Open to open a file from a network location for example, a network server.

During the process of opening the file, you lose your network connection or the network location that contains the file that you are trying to open goes down. During the process of opening the file, your Office program tries to add the file name and the path information of the file that you are trying to open to the Windows recent file list. Because the network location path does not now exist, the Office program may run slowly and may appear to stop responding hang. This situation may also occur if your connection to your network is slow because your Office program has to make multiple queries to the network to obtain the correct file information.

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This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help. Firefox is being very laggy, as is Chrome. The only browser I have that is working fine is Internet Explorer, but I do not wish to continue the use of I.

E as it's naturally slow, no real lag, just slow. Firefox has been my go-to browser for years, and I'd really prefer not to have to stop using it now. Here are the details, over the last week Firefox has just been really terrible to use.

It started with videos YouTube etc not playing correctly - the audio's fine, the buffering's fine, but the picture is very choppy. Chrome's doing this too but I. If you want, you can change this default download location on your Windows 10 PC to any other folder you like. There are many reasons you may want to change the default downloads folder on your computer.

Maybe you want to keep your downloaded files on a certain partition? Windows Registry Editor lets you tweak many settings on your machine.

This includes changing the default downloads location on your Windows 10 PC. You only need to edit one value in the registry and your chosen folder will become the new default downloads location. With this feature, you can change where your computer saves your apps, documents, music, and so on. You can only choose the drive where your new content is to be saved. You can change the default downloads location in Microsoft Edge on your computer so that your future downloads are saved in your selected folder.