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> File explorer freezes / crashes. It's been happening to me too, but it's unclear to me if it's one of my shell extensions or Windows itself. Do you run any s

> File explorer freezes / crashes. It's been happening to me too, but it's unclear to me if it's one of my shell extensions or Windows itself. Do you run any shell extensions? > There are occasional glitches with git. It wouldn't let me clone a git repo somewhere because it said the folder already existed. No such folder existed. Changing the destination name did nothing. Restarting fixed it. That's mind-boggling. Were you using WSL at all, or just vanilla Windows git? WSL can have these types of issues if you try to mess with its file system (I think due to POSIX deletion semantics), but they shouldn't occur on your desktop...

jcelerier 7y ago
> It's been happening to me too, but it's unclear to me if it's one of my shell extensions or Windows itself. Do you run any shell extensions? only shellex here is 7zfm integration and I get occasional explorer.exe crashes. Also I had an install where edge just wouldn't start. At all.
- mehrdadn 7y ago
  Good to know, thanks for the info! I do have 7-zip too, so I'll try to see if it might be related if it happens again.
suby 7y ago
I don't think I have any shell extensions installed. I did allow git, 7zip, and clion to add themselves to the right click context menu, but I don't think that counts as a shell extension? I do have WSL installed, but only for curiosities sake. I messed around with it for a few hours and have not used it since. I'm using git with the terminal editor that they recommend to you in the git for Windows installation, I think it's called git with bash? It could have been some type of issue there rather than Microsoft being at fault. But that terminal editor is (or at least was) the recommended option presented to you in the git installer, so shrugs
- mehrdadn 7y ago
  > I did allow git, 7zip, and clion to add themselves to the right click context menu, but I don't think that counts as a shell extension? They do count, but whether or not they're relevant depends on whether they're triggered. e.g. if you never right-clicked, then 7-zip probably doesn't count. Although 7-zip also installs drag-drop handlers, so it's not just right-clicking, and I'm not sure when the others get triggered. > I'm using git with the terminal editor that they recommend to you in the git for Windows installation, I think it's called git with bash? It could have been some type of issue there rather than Microsoft being at fault. But that terminal editor is (or at least was) the recommended option presented to you in the git installer, so shrugs. Hm, somehow I feel neither of them is related. How likely is it that the name wasn't unique after your rename? Did you type in gibberish or something that could plausibly exist? Note that if you were ever trying to remove e.g. a directory that was the current working directory of any running program (like your terminal or anything else), that'd fail. It's possible that there's some bug that makes you think it's succeeding, and therefore making you think that the folder no longer exists. But hard to say with the current info.
  - suby 7y ago
    > Hm, somehow I feel neither of them is related. How likely is it that the name wasn't unique after your rename? Did you type in gibberish or something that could plausibly exist? I only have my memory to go by so this could be faulty, but if I remember correctly I was trying to copy a public repository into an empty folder. I simply called git clone url. When that failed, considering the error message I got, I then entered in the clone command with a random string of characters for the destination name, again in the same empty folder. When that failed, I closed the terminal, opened a new one on my desktop, and that failed, too. Restarting fixed it. I encounter a lot of weird issues with Windows. I'm not sure if it's my hardware combination, or what. The hardware itself contains my Linux install, which never gives me an issue, so I doubt it's faulty hardware. At one point I assumed I had installed from a corrupted ISO or something, so I downloaded a new ISO and reinstalled. Problems persisted. It's entirely possible that some program that I typically install causes issues, but I can't imagine what program that would be. Practically the only thing on my Windows partition is visual studio (c++ and c# tooling), clion, 7zip, WSL (could be this, I suppose), an installation of ruby, and Sublime Text. I know at one point Microsoft was saying that CCleaner was causing problems, but I'm not using anything like that.

jcelerier 7y ago

> It's been happening to me too, but it's unclear to me if it's one of my shell extensions or Windows itself. Do you run any shell extensions? only shellex here is 7zfm integration and I get occasional explorer.exe crashes. Also I had an install where edge just wouldn't start. At all.

mehrdadn 7y ago
Good to know, thanks for the info! I do have 7-zip too, so I'll try to see if it might be related if it happens again.

suby 7y ago

I don't think I have any shell extensions installed. I did allow git, 7zip, and clion to add themselves to the right click context menu, but I don't think that counts as a shell extension? I do have WSL installed, but only for curiosities sake. I messed around with it for a few hours and have not used it since. I'm using git with the terminal editor that they recommend to you in the git for Windows installation, I think it's called git with bash? It could have been some type of issue there rather than Microsoft being at fault. But that terminal editor is (or at least was) the recommended option presented to you in the git installer, so shrugs

mehrdadn 7y ago
> I did allow git, 7zip, and clion to add themselves to the right click context menu, but I don't think that counts as a shell extension? They do count, but whether or not they're relevant depends on whether they're triggered. e.g. if you never right-clicked, then 7-zip probably doesn't count. Although 7-zip also installs drag-drop handlers, so it's not just right-clicking, and I'm not sure when the others get triggered. > I'm using git with the terminal editor that they recommend to you in the git for Windows installation, I think it's called git with bash? It could have been some type of issue there rather than Microsoft being at fault. But that terminal editor is (or at least was) the recommended option presented to you in the git installer, so shrugs. Hm, somehow I feel neither of them is related. How likely is it that the name wasn't unique after your rename? Did you type in gibberish or something that could plausibly exist? Note that if you were ever trying to remove e.g. a directory that was the current working directory of any running program (like your terminal or anything else), that'd fail. It's possible that there's some bug that makes you think it's succeeding, and therefore making you think that the folder no longer exists. But hard to say with the current info.
- suby 7y ago
  > Hm, somehow I feel neither of them is related. How likely is it that the name wasn't unique after your rename? Did you type in gibberish or something that could plausibly exist? I only have my memory to go by so this could be faulty, but if I remember correctly I was trying to copy a public repository into an empty folder. I simply called git clone url. When that failed, considering the error message I got, I then entered in the clone command with a random string of characters for the destination name, again in the same empty folder. When that failed, I closed the terminal, opened a new one on my desktop, and that failed, too. Restarting fixed it. I encounter a lot of weird issues with Windows. I'm not sure if it's my hardware combination, or what. The hardware itself contains my Linux install, which never gives me an issue, so I doubt it's faulty hardware. At one point I assumed I had installed from a corrupted ISO or something, so I downloaded a new ISO and reinstalled. Problems persisted. It's entirely possible that some program that I typically install causes issues, but I can't imagine what program that would be. Practically the only thing on my Windows partition is visual studio (c++ and c# tooling), clion, 7zip, WSL (could be this, I suppose), an installation of ruby, and Sublime Text. I know at one point Microsoft was saying that CCleaner was causing problems, but I'm not using anything like that.