Windows 10: Explorer hangs when trying to open share

Discus and support Explorer hangs when trying to open share in Windows 10 Network and Sharing to solve the problem; I am trying to access a share on my desktop computer from my laptop. I can connect to the share and the share appears on the left hand side in... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Network and Sharing' started by ricecrispies, Nov 6, 2017.

  1. Explorer hangs when trying to open share


    I am trying to access a share on my desktop computer from my laptop. I can connect to the share and the share appears on the left hand side in Explorer, but Explorer hangs a lot when I try to get into the share or do other operations such as changing a folder name. Sometimes it will let me get into the top level of the share, but hang when I try to get into a subfolder, but often it hangs as soon as I click on the share. When I say hang, I mean a spinning wheel. Sometimes I can close the window to terminate the attempt, but sometimes I have to go into task manager and kill Explorer to regain control.

    What is going on?

    One extra bit of information which may be relevant is that for some reason the share is invisible from the network browser. I have to type the name of the share into the address bar to access it.

    EDIT: It now looks as if some of the hanging is just things taking a very long time, as in several minutes to open a folder.

    :)
     
    ricecrispies, Nov 6, 2017
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  2. External hard drive not responding only when connected to my laptop.

    What happens when you connect the drive? Does it show up in Explorer? If so, when you try to open it what happens? Does it cause Explorer to hang or something?
     
    RobertJWin, Nov 6, 2017
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  3. Omiti Win User
    E7-00 hangs when trying to open "Installed Apps" from Settings menu - Application Manager

    My Nokia E7-00 hangs every time I try to open Application Manager to uninstall applications - it says "scanning memory" and hangs there. Only way to come out of it is to hard reboot the phone. I tried reinstalling the device software from PC Ovi Suite and
    even though the reinstall completed successfully, it still hangs just the same as before. As a result, I am unable to uninstall ANY applications - I am stuck. Please help.
     
    Omiti, Nov 6, 2017
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  4. Samuria Win User

    Explorer hangs when trying to open share

    Its normally a disk fault on the share or a corrupted file
     
    Samuria, Nov 6, 2017
    #4
  5. Thanks for the reply *Smile

    I'd assumed it was a problem on the machine with the share too, but rebooting the client seems to have resolved the issue.
     
    ricecrispies, Apr 5, 2018
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