You can use the Finder Tool in the Find Window dialog box to display window properties or messages. The Finder Tool can also locate disabled child windows, and discern which window to highlight if disabled child windows overlap.
The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The topwindow always shows a list of the currently active processes, includingthe names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed inthe bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: ifit is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected inthe top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'llsee the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded.Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that willquickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLsloaded.
Hi Richard, can you please launch your Dropbox folder, and check if the files are there? Please click the Dropbox icon in your windows tray, then click the folder icon, it will take you to the Dropbox folder. Do you see the files there?
When I type "bash" to the windows explorer address bar and hit Enter, it opens the shell in that directory. Often I find myself wanting to work on files with windows programs in the working directory I reached through shell. Is there an easy way to open explorer from the location reached through shell?
I had an issue to open windows directory with the explorer.exe command from within wsl shell. The error message is /mnt/c/system32/explorer.exe: permission denied. It turns out that I need to add the following to wsl.config (need sudo vim to edit) and restart:
There has been always the need of opening the file/folder location in windows explorer, but I guess every application uses the trick of doing it through "System Exec.vi" or "Open URL" or Win32 API. There is no LabVIEW native function to directly open folder/files in windows explorer directly.
The fact that the help doesn't document the windows explorer versus internet explorer is a CAR (a png file for instance is indeed opened by IE, so as long as the file format is supported, it will try. A txt file is opened bby Notepad, etc).
If I feed it a folder path, the location opens in chrome, now windows explorer. If I give it the path of a text file, the file opens in chrome, not the default application. What are you doing differently?
There is aprogram called EasyFile. I think it's the best user-friendly and simple solution for windows by now. And it's free at this time. The site is in German and I don't know if there's an English Version of the program available. But you could try it at least.
Unbelievably enough, this was fixed in July 18th 2017 on Windows Server 2016 in KB4025334:
-us/help/4025334/windows-10-update-kb4025334
"Addressed issue where File Explorer does not refresh changes automatically when using RemoteApps on Windows Server 2016. "
I've noticed that opening a mintty terminal, such as git bash or one of the msys2 terminals, while that window is open, I can't click icons and buttons in many explorer windows, and even inside some programs.
Restarting windows explorer from task manager (both with command restart and by separately killing it and then relaunching it) neither solved the issue : if a mintty terminal is open the issue remains.
I've also tried to reinstall git to get git-bash fixed, but it didn't help. Just few minutes before the windows 11 update, everything worked just fine, so I suspect it's inside one of the two updates (the cumulative for windows 11 ?).
This happened yesterday. Everything that had to do with windows explorer started freezing or super slow. Saving files, opening file explorer, everything. (not specifically my mycloud home drive)
Tried every method online, cleaning cashes, disabling explorer features, I was getting desperate. Nothing would work. Rebooting made the explorer work normally for a few minutes, then trying to open it gave me a white loading window.
Out of nowhere I decided to quit dropbox, nothing happened. Then I did the same for the WD Discovery app from the trey icon, and instantly explorer started working again with no issues at all and it opens normally in about 0.01 seconds.
Another home user mistake is that most home users have slow upload speed so when they have Windows Explorer connected to a MCH remote or relay folder, they think that windows will behave the same as if the file folder was on their desktop with instant access. The home user should know that upload and relay server speed will often limit access to < 1 MBps and often slowed to
Your suggestion about the cache is interesting though , do you know where the cache is stored on the C partition, could it be windows defender putting restrictions on the device so perhaps excluding the cache from defender might be an option. Just a thought. Thanks.
its not that i want to use txt files. but whenever i have to jot down something urgently, for example:
normaly we have windows explorer opened while working. now i have to jot down soemthing quick, would i just create a notepad (.txt) file in the working directory; or open up obsidian, then find the working move to working directory, then make a new file. seems a lot of extra work, no?
It might also be the windows version,or the fact that there are pending updates. I have that a lot that as soon as there are updates that were downloaded, things do not work anymore (especially media related (audio, video)) until I actually rebooted and installed the updates. I just installed a fresh early copy of windows 10 without updates and installed ue 4.20. Context menu options were missing and also some solutions on this thread were not working for me. I removed everything and downloaded the latest version of the epic launcher installer and after updating windows to the latest version and installing the epic launcher + ue 4.21 I have the context menu entries back.
What I want to know is if there is a way to create a link to a server location that will open in Windows Explorer rather than whichever web browser the user happens to be using, and let the server access protocol through windows decide whether the user has sufficient access.
Though any of these options will require some scripting to fetch/open a file (not a "link") or require writing custom application which will process custom URL scheme (say "myapp://", e.g. like described here -do-i-register-a-custom-url-protocol-in-windows).
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