Windows 10: Windows explorer freezes in Windows 10/11 with network drive probably IPv6 related

Hello,It's been many years now I have this problem with window explorer: randomly after boot i get red X on network drive and if I click on it, the window explorer freezes. Had this problem since 2018 I think, when I had Windows 10 and my old PC. Then in 2020 I changed PC and installed Windows 11 in new installation and it kept happening.Not only windows explorer freezes, but also other programs have problems if I try to access Windows file menu, like the "save as.." button.I think it's network configuration related, since all this problems disappear instantly if I disable and reenable the net

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Windows explorer freezes in Windows 10/11 with network drive (probably IPv6 related)

Hello,

It's been many years now I have this problem with window explorer: randomly after boot i get red X on network drive and if I click on it, the window explorer freezes. Had this problem since 2018 I think, when I had Windows 10 and my old PC. Then in 2020 I changed PC and installed Windows 11 in new installation and it kept happening.

Not only windows explorer freezes, but also other programs have problems if I try to access Windows file menu, like the "save as.." button.

I think it's network configuration related, since all this problems disappear instantly if I disable and reenable the network interface of the PC. The window explorer instantly unfreezes and I can access network drive then till the next reboot.

I have IPv6 and IPv4 both configured on the PC interface and the network drive is mounted using DNS that has IPv6 and IPv4 addess. I tried setting Static IP on the pc network interface and using DHCP, that changes nothing.

Is anything like that happened to any of you? I will leave using IPv4 only as last resort....

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Microsoft Internet Explorer renamed to Windows Internet Explorer ?




Since version 7 of the world`s most popular web browser - Microsoft Internet Explorer was silently renamed to Windows Internet Explorer.Such a step from Microsoft is not a surprise since Internet Explorer is part of the Windows operation system for a long time.Obviously Microsoft corp. wants to state that Internet Explorer is already considered as a part of Windows and not as an external browser (remember the IE and WMP law issues last year!?).