Shortcut to C-drive has stopped working

[Norman Swartz]

I am running Windows XP Pro SP2. All hard drives are set to NTFS.

Tonight, quite out of the blue, the shortcut on my desktop to the C-drive
has stopped working correctly.

I have three shortcuts on my desktop to my three hard drives, C, E, and
F. The 'guts' of each shortcut reads:

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,c:\
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,e:\
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,f:\

When I click on the shortcut for the c-drive, there is no plus-sign to
the left of "Local Disk (C, that drive is not expanded in the left-
hand pane, and if I right-click on "Local Disk (C, "Expand" is greyed-
out.

The shortcuts for the E and F drives work correctly: the drives are
"expanded" in the left-hand pane.

I have run every possible test on the C-drive. It's in perfect working
order.

Any ideas as to what has caused the deviant behavior and any ideas how to
fix it? (I have already done a "System Restore" for yesterday (when the
problem did not exist). It made no difference at all.

 

[Norman Swartz]

I have finally tracked down the problem. Windows Explorer misbehaves
when there are 100 or more subdirectories in the root directory of a
drive. I have now moved some of these excess number of subdirectories to
another drive; the problem is fixed.
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[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

http://groups.google.co.in/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/msg/4e62245dd465cc35
http://groups.google.co.in/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize/msg/0647cd83626dd67e

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


I have finally tracked down the problem. Windows Explorer misbehaves
when there are 100 or more subdirectories in the root directory of a
drive. I have now moved some of these excess number of subdirectories to
another drive; the problem is fixed.
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