Questions tagged [windows-explorer]
Windows Explorer is the default graphical file system browser and manager included in all Microsoft operating systems since Windows 95. It is sometimes referred to as the "Windows Shell," though it is actually just one component of the Windows shell.
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How to force Windows to prompt for credentials while accessing share
By default when I access some computer's share ( typing \\hostname in Windows Explorer ) Windows passes credential of my current user. It prompts for credentials only when current user's credentials ...
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Windows shares via command line with user/pass, without mapping the drive? [closed]
In my day to day work, I need to access data on shared folders using different credentials (my desktop account is not the same as the account I use to access these servers). Normally, I'd map a few ...
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Search for just folders in Windows Explorer
Is there a way to search in Windows Explorer for just folders?
I know folders get sorted to the top, but I'm always looking for that extra option.
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How to Restart explorer.exe Remotely?
I'm having big troubles with a remote server that for some reason explorer.exe crashed and, although I didn't lose remote desktop connectivity, I can't do anything. Is there a way of restarting ...
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What is the best way to remove 100,000 files from a Windows Directory
I had a user with more that 100,000 files in a single directory. The machine locks up and become unusable for a long time whilst the Explorer fills up memory and the machine can crash. Is there a ...
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How do I purge or empty Windows Explorer's network username and sharename cache?
While troubleshooting a Samba vs Windows Network issue, I noticed that Windows' Explorer remembers login credentials of remote shares, even if you ask it not to. For instance, after accessing a share ...
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Can I make windows treat Shortcuts to Folders the same it would a Folder?
I'm moving some folders to an external storage drive and replacing them with a Shortcut, however the shortcut is listed in with the Files, not the Folders. It also doesn't show up in the folder Tree ...
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How to stop explorer.exe from keeping files open
I have a Windows 2003 server machine, this machine is backed up by a nightly scheduled task that copies files and folders to a portable USB hard drive (encrypted using TrueCrypt)
Every week the ...
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Change starting location of Explorer from Windows-E
How do I change which folder/location Windows Explorer opens to when I run it by pressing Windows-E? I'd like for it to open in My Documents instead of at the root of Computer.
I've found references ...
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How do I clean up the right-click context menu in Windows explorer?
Sometimes applications plug into the context menu that I get on right-click on files and folders in Windows Explorer. After some time this menu gets really messy and I just want to clean it up.
Can ...
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See network computer description in Explorer
When viewing the list of network computers in Windows Explorer on a Win 7 machine there appears to be no way of readily seeing the description field, which makes that pretty well useless. I believe ...
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Mapped drives not showing in first run of Windows Explorer
We have a handful of Windows XP SP3 users whose mapped drives don't always appear in Windows Explorer when they initially log in. "net use" shows the drives are mapped correctly and they can see them ...
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Disabling the prompt to "Click Continue to permanently get access to this folder" (e.g. via GPO)
http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/950934 describes the manner in which, when a member of the Administrators group uses Explorer to navigate to a folder to which the Administrators group has ...
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Windows Explorer Toolbar button for Hide/Show Hidden or System files? [closed]
Has anyone run across a nice small Windows Explorer Shell Extension that simply adds toolbar buttons at the top of the window to Hide/Show Hidden files and to Hide/Show System files?
I know about the ...
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How can I prevent explorer starting as a shell in a kiosk setting?
I'm using an alternative shell (a simple program that restarts a kiosk application if it dies) for a project I'm working on. I've set it via the Shell value in the registry, and I'm not using explorer....
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How to diagnose a hang when creating a new folder in explorer.exe
I have been having some issues with explorer.exe hanging when I create a new folder.
If I use Analyse Wait Chain in the Resource Monitor it says "One or more threads of explorer.exe are waiting to ...
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Good file manager replacement in Linux / Windows? [closed]
I like to use Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) and I'm constantly disappointed at the lack of power in the file managers.
What uber-powerful all inclusive awesomesauce solution do you use?
/yes, I know ...
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Check zone assignment from Windows Explorer in Windows 8/Server 2012
I'm trying to determine whether a particular folder is assigned to the Intranet zone. On previous versions of Windows, I could look in the status bar at the bottom of a Windows Explorer window, like ...
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Secure FTP client for Windows Explorer [closed]
I have a small business website that once in awhile I need to upload files to. Before recently I've been keeping an ftp login string in my password manager, that looked as such:
ftp://username:...
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Remote Desktop mangles files when copying
I have a Windows Vista Business box at work and Windows XP Professional box at home. Both are updated to the teeth, but the problem still remains. The symptoms are:
This happens when I connect from ...
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Can't run .bat file off share, but can from cmd
I have a smb share on a Linux box set up that I can view in explorer:
\\XXX.YYY.ZZZ.QQQ\Share
In this share is a batch file:
\\XXX.YYY.ZZZ.QQQ\Share\Scripts\Script.bat
I can open the file in ...
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Windows 7 PC cannot see some LAN PCs, but can access them via path
In an office LAN, with Windows 7 Professional workstations and a FreeNAS Samba server, 2 workstations have intermittent problems in browsing for the other workstations, as well as the FreeNAS server.
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migratable Windows Explorer settings
The default appearance settings of Windows irritate me with its dumbing down of the interface and I always modify Windows Explorer with
launch by default to My Computer
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,::...
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Windows7: No disk usage in status bar? [closed]
I am trying out Windows 7 RC, and one thing annoys me a bit. In windows XP (Can't remember how it was in Vista...) when browsing folders I could see how much free space I had on the disk in the status ...
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How to make computer alias discoverable?
I am replacing an old server 2008r2 system with a new windows 2016 server but am having problems with computer visibility on the local network.
My file server has a DNS alias which doesn't appear as ...
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Folder Redirection - Explorer requires manual refresh
When a user's My Documents folder is redirected to a DFS share, Windows Explorer requires a manual refresh after creating a new folder, file, etc. Interestingly, the manual refresh is not necessary ...
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Performance problem in Vista Windows explorer if /SWAPRUN:NET is set on an executable
I have rather big executables (about 25-35 MB). Because I want my
users to easily execute my application, I don't want them to install a
bunch of DLL's, just xcopy-install is OK for me (and my ...
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Hiding network mapped drives in Windows XP
Is it possible to map a network drive but conceal this in Windows Explorer? Currently users are all using different drive letters to access the same network resources, and I would like to standardise ...
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Windows Explorer not responding with a file. Not able to delete
I have some issues with a Windows 2003 server. I replaced a disk in an RAID 5 array but the rebuild aborts because of a read error on another disk in the array. I fould out that there is a data file I ...
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delete broken network shortcuts from My Network Places
I am running Windows XP SP3.
I have several shortcuts in My Network Places in Explorer that point to nonexistent IP addresses. I never succeed to delete them. When I do left-click on them, or right-...
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Explorer Right Click Context Menu Items Missing
OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2
When I right click on a file/folder most of the third party context menu items are missing.
These are the items like 7zip , Unlocker, Winamp ... which adds entry to right ...
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WinXP DVD/CD freezes Explorer for 8-12 minutes, then continues as normal
A user came to me with a CD containing 24 PDFs, complaining that he couldn't read the disk on his computer. I was able to read the disk with no problem on my PC. I went to his desk, put the CD in his ...
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Explorer dies on XP Pro in a Windows 2003 network
I have two Windows XP SP3 workstations, one of them is recently freshly installed. The workstations are connected to a Windows 2003 server with a cabled local network.
The problem I have is that ...
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Index Only File Names For Windows Explorer Search?
How can one tell Windows to index only file names under Windows?
Running a name:*whatever* search in Windows Explorer takes a long time without indexing the entire file system. That is overkill for ...
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Why can't I access my FTP server with Windows Explorer?
I have an instance running Ubuntu 16.0.4 LTS on Google Compute Engine with port 21 open to it. I have installed vsftpd on it, added a user for the FTP service, and set the directory permissions to ...
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Why can't I drag and drop in Explorer any more (re: Windows Server 2003)?
We have a couple of Windows Server 2003 machines on our network and for some reason I can't drag-and-drop files on the desktop or anywhere else.
If I right-click and drag it shows the icon on the ...
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Accessing network share in explorer on different domain not prompting for credentials. Access is denied
I'm accessing a machine on a different domain in Windows explorer. When I navigate to the machine (ie. \MACHINENAME), I'm able to see all the shares on that machine. I'm not prompted for a username/...
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Windows Server 2008 expanding folders is Slow
On several Windows 2008 Server machines I'll log onto, when expanding folders in Windows Explorer with the treeview on the left, at times, it can take forever for the nodes to expand. Oftentimes ...
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How to track cause of blocking IO problems
I move between multiple subnets and networks on a regular basis. I'm often faced with Explorer and other programs that stall in what appears to be an IO request. I'm trying to find a consistent way ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 File Explorer gives green bar of death when opening
On a server running Windows Server 2012 R2 when opening file explorer, it shows an empty details screen and the green bar of death starts going across the screen (see image below).
If I open a second ...
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Remove Windows Explorer Drop Down Options
I am trying to lock down a Windows Server 2008 R2 terminal server.
At the moment, when a user opens a directory, there is the option in the Windows Explorer address bar to choose locations. In the ...
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How can users change their Active Directory password without Remote Desktop?
In our Active Directory setup, some users will be accessing domain resources (shared folders on the network, specifically) from non-domain computers. Only users from the domain have permission to ...
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How to close Windows 10 taskbar
I need to install a PC with Windows 10 pro 64bit. It will be customized with a dock to launch predefined application.
How can I close (or completely hide) the windows taskbar?
I have already found ...
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"'Network Drive' refers to a location that is unavailable" while UNC works
Situation:
Environment is a Windows Domain with 160+ Clients, several DCs. No WINS. DNS working.
Fileserver is a Windows Server 2012 R2, patched regularly, SMB shares, proper NTFS and share ...
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What would cause a file saved to a Windows network share to not be immediately visible through the browse function of a 3rd party program?
Problem
We have a Windows 2008 R2 server with a network share setup on one of
the storage volumes. Users on desktop computers use a scanner to scan
single-page documents and convert them to a digital ...
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explorer.exe eating all CPU, how to to detect culprit?
Windows 7 64bit.
I am using ProcessExplorer from Sysinternals, and it says, that the offending call is
ntdll.dll!RtlValidateHeap+0x170
however, the call stack towards the entry is always different, ...
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Windows 7 caches FTP credentials?
On my remote machine I have an IIS 7.5 (Windows Server 2008). I set up an ftp site with IIS Manager authentication. I then did Active Directory user isolation and isolated my users to physical folders ...
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How do I enable Windows XP's Windows Explorer to accept CNAME aliases in the address bar? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Configure Windows Machine to Allow File Sharing with DNS Alias
Environment: Let's say my server name is OU812 and its IP address is 172.100.51.50. In DNS Manager I ...
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Windows file content not updated in Explorer/Powershell
On a Windows Server a logging tool writes .log files to disk continuesly and rotates log files daily at midnight. Every day the new log file gets created, but almost every day its content / meta data ...
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Cannot access samba Ubuntu server via hostname UNC path (IP works) in Windows explorer
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We have an AD server running on Windows Server 2012 (ad01.<domainroot>). There is a Samba file server running on Ubuntu 20.04 (fs02.<domainroot>). The file server is domain joined ...