Why is Snowbird browser faster than Windows Explorer.?

Question

I was wondering how such performance can be achieved on Windows, because I noticed that snowberd is even faster than the DOS "dir" command, even on mapped network drives ...?

Any idea that algo / technology is used to quickly browse directories ...?

Answer 1

I think the best way is to use Windows Shell stuff .

Maybe the dir command is slow due to excessive screen overhead? When I do "dir> output.txt", I don't see a significant performance difference with the file viewer software.