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Classic Explorer navigation bar: Launching Explorer, navigating to a folder, and then trying to go back to Home causes a crash #581

Open StevenSchifter opened 7 months ago

StevenSchifter commented 7 months ago

@m417z I can reproduce a crash in Explorer on Windows 11 with the "Classic Explorer navigation bar" mod loaded.

  1. Open Explorer to its default location (Home).
  2. Navigate to a folder from Home.
  3. Click the Back arrow.
  4. Explorer will freeze, then crash. (When "Launch folder windows in a separate process" is enabled, only open folders will close. Otherwise, the entire Windows shell crashes and restarts.)
  5. I disabled Windows Defender real-time protection and followed the above steps again to reproduce the crash.

ClassicExplorerNavigationBarCrash.log

elbadcode commented 7 months ago

you should disable launch fodler windows in a separate process I believe, although I forget the exact issue. Regardless this is not reproducible on my end therefore you should explore other possibilities

actually I can't even get it to launch file explorer to home. Mine is set to open "this pc" but if I launch, navigate to home and then attempt I still can't get it to freeze or crash

StevenSchifter commented 7 months ago

I tried disabling "Launch folder windows in a separate process" as you suggested, but I could still reproduce the issue. Your post inspired me to also set up my File Explorer to launch to "This PC". I can safely navigate to a drive and then back to "This PC" without a crash. Therefore, I'll keep it that way and add some shortcuts in %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts. Thanks.