File Explorer issue for specific folders

Yesterday a strange problem occurred on my Windows 7 machine. After some time the File Explorer was not able to move or list files in a directory.

Since I installed a new application before I thought that this new app must be the bad guy!

Today I discovered that this problem only occurs when opening specific folders. Déjà-vu!

Had exactly this problem under XP and now under Windows 7! Do Microsoft's developers never learn from their mistakes?

Solution(s):

• Enable "Always show icons, never thumbnails" (File Explorer: Organize | Folder and search options > View)
• File Explorer: Organize | Layout | Details Pane/Preview Pane

In my case the first solution did it!

MS wasted some of my (spare-)time again … Maybe this blog entry helps other to safe some time!

Ever wondered why TortoiseSVN displays “wrong icons”?

The answer was a surprise for me. Hopefully Microsoft will do some improvement on it …

• http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/faq.html#ovlnotall
• https://sugarsync.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/65

Having three applications installed on my machines using “icon overlays” but when there are only 11 overlays are available for all applications it is no wonder that sometimes it simply not works. I hope that Microsoft will improve it since it is a so simple and basic feature for the File Explorer.

No Samba/NAS under Vista Ultimate?

Some days ago I got my Fantec MM-FHDL Multimedia Player. It offers NAS and FTP support. Beside the playable video/audio formats NAS support was one of the reasons why I bought that device.

Of course it works fine under Windows XP Professional SP3:

But having troubles under Vista. Depending how I try to open the IP address I am getting different results.

Via Vista Start Menu (0x80070035: “The network path was not found.”):

Btw: As long the above dialog is open, you can’t use the Start Menu ^^. This dialog disables the Start Menu! This isn’t very smart in my view. So it was a bit difficult to start Paint.NET in order to get the screen-shot. But this is another story.

But when using Vista’s File Explorer (0x80004005: “Unspecified error.”):

I assume that Samba/NAS is still supported by Fista (aka Vista)!?

Via FTP (using FileZilla) I am able to access the device under Vista:

But FTP is only a workaround for this nasty Fista problem. I’d just like to use File Explorer!

Ideas how to solve the Fista / NAS / Samba problem are welcome! Btw, a Virtual PC using XP on my Fista machine is no option ;-)

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