In a statement, Microsoft admitted Windows 11's performance could "potentially degrade" due to a bug where Task Manager refuses to quit.

One reason to use the Task Manager in Windows is to see if any of the apps running on your computer are misbehaving or using ...

Closing and reopening Task Manager now spawns extra copies, quickly eating up your system's memory and resources.

If your File Explorer is freezing in Windows 11, there are several relatively simple fixes for the problem.