Problems with Long File Names

Question

Hello

I'am Tobias and I have a Problem with long File Names

on a share, people used to create files and directories in Windows 7, some of them over 300 characters long.

That was not a big problem back then.

Now we have switched to Windows 10 and we now have a problem with it.

The problem is not that Windows says hey your file name is too long, but it just crashes the explorer.

For example, when I search for xy on the share, it searches for a while and suddenly the window with the eyplorer is simply gone.

Same thing when I try to click down the directories. Eventually the explorer is gone.

The stupid thing is that this does not happen on all computers, but only on an individual basis.

It also does not depend on permissions, it can happen to a domain admin just like a normal user

I've searched a lot on the net but have not found a satisfactory answer so far.

Sure the problem is the long file names, but changing them does not happen overnight and my people have to be able to work. And since it works on some stations, there has to be a solution for it to work on all stations ...

For example, I have already tried:

• permissions
• RegKey to allow long file names
• Create an ExplorerDump and read it out with VisualStudio. There was a problem with thumnails.

So I deleted the thumnails DB in the user profile, but the problem persists.

If anyone has an idea that I have not had, I like to try it out

Thank you very much

Answer 1

have just found the solution!

Thanks to Regmon (I know the tool is already a bit old ...) I found out that there is definitely a problem with the thumbnails.

No idea how to solve this, but fortunately you can easily turn off the crap:

Explorer - file - folder and search options - view

akctivate "Always show icons instead of thumbnails"

after that, the Explorer does not crash anymore!

Why it works without this setting on other machines, no idea ....

Thank you