Files: Improve the launching speed

[Jaiganeshkumaran]

Although Files UWP is much better the File Explorer in my opinion, it is much slow to launch so if I want to access a folder quickly I can't use Files UWP. Please work on improving the performance of Files now that it's getting popular.

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[SOI7]

Removing the splash screen could increase the boot speed I believe

[Jaiganeshkumaran]

Actually Files UWP is already configured to hide the splash screen but it only works when app launches fast enough. The splash screen isn’t the problem here.

[SOI7]

I see it all the time 🤷‍♀️

[MarcAnt01]

Can confirm I have this delay, Win32 explorer happens to be slow just with heavy folders while Files UWP has a little delay when opening a folder, even if it contains few elements.

[duke7553]

@yaichenbaum recently enabled an optimization for .NET Native which should improve start up times.

Commit: https://github.com/files-community/Files/pull/2215/commits/3dcf530a891b7597d5f049cbdc402cc38c2591ad