Win2K Folder Pane in Windows Explorer

[brimhj]

I have come across an issue that involves the folder pane
on the left when in windows explorer. Search, favorites,
and history are all ok. When trying to view the FOLDER
pane it shows a grey box on the left side of Windows
explorer rather than the Folder tree that it should show.

Any IDEAS?

 

[Jason Hall [MSFT]]

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From: "brimhj" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Win2K Folder Pane in Windows Explorer
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 10:36:13 -0700

I have come across an issue that involves the folder pane
on the left when in windows explorer. Search, favorites,
and history are all ok. When trying to view the FOLDER
pane it shows a grey box on the left side of Windows
explorer rather than the Folder tree that it should show.

Any IDEAS?

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This issue happens sometimes during a hotfix/update, simply re-register the
necessary .dll files to resolve:
Start > Run > REGSVR32 SHDOCVW.DLL /i

If this does not resolve this issue, enter the following two commands as
well:
REGSVR32 URLMON.DLL /i
REGSVR32 MSHTML.DLL /i

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[Guest]

Hello Jason,

I came across the same problem here on a Win2K server, and I registered the given .dll files (all three which you posted before). They all seem to register succesfully, but unfortunately the folder pane in Windows Explorer is still greyed out with an X on the top right.

Do I need to restart the server? The machine is quite critical so I cannot restart the server, maybe you can tell me if this will do the trick.

 

[Mark Brown[MSFT]]

| From: "brimhj" <[email protected]>
| Sender: "brimhj" <[email protected]>
| Subject: Win2K Folder Pane in Windows Explorer
| Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 10:36:13 -0700
|
| I have come across an issue that involves the folder pane
| on the left when in windows explorer. Search, favorites,
| and history are all ok. When trying to view the FOLDER
| pane it shows a grey box on the left side of Windows
| explorer rather than the Folder tree that it should show.
|
| Any IDEAS?
|

Hi....
I have a solution that will resolve without a reboot...
The re-registering of the DLLs was a good solution, however this batch file
is all of the critical
DLLs now linked to the browser and to IE.....

This is caused by, strangely enough, Internet Explorer.
Since IE is now so integrated into the browser there is a specific DLL that
has not been correctly
registered in either Internet Explorer or Windows Explorer.

This is how we fix this.

Action Plan
**********
1. open "wordpad"
2. copy this text (below) into the "wordpad"
3. save the "wordpad" file as "IEreg.bat" to your desktop and then "double
click" to launch





regsvr32 comcat.dll /s
regsvr32 shdoc401.dll /s
regsvr32 shdoc401.dll /i /s
regsvr32 asctrls.ocx /s
regsvr32 oleaut32.dll /s
regsvr32 shdocvw.dll /I /s
regsvr32 shdocvw.dll /s
regsvr32 browseui.dll /s
regsvr32 browseui.dll /I /s
regsvr32 msrating.dll /s
regsvr32 mlang.dll /s
regsvr32 hlink.dll /s
regsvr32 mshtmled.dll /s
regsvr32 urlmon.dll /s
regsvr32 plugin.ocx /s
regsvr32 sendmail.dll /s
regsvr32 scrobj.dll /s
regsvr32 mmefxe.ocx /s
regsvr32 corpol.dll /s
regsvr32 jscript.dll /s
regsvr32 msxml.dll /s
regsvr32 imgutil.dll /s
regsvr32 thumbvw.dll /s
regsvr32 cryptext.dll /s
regsvr32 rsabase.dll /s
regsvr32 inseng.dll /s
regsvr32 iesetup.dll /i /s
regsvr32 cryptdlg.dll /s
regsvr32 actxprxy.dll /s
regsvr32 dispex.dll /s
regsvr32 occache.dll /s
regsvr32 occache.dll /i /s
regsvr32 iepeers.dll /s
regsvr32 urlmon.dll /i /s
regsvr32 cdfview.dll /s
regsvr32 webcheck.dll /s
regsvr32 mobsync.dll /s
regsvr32 pngfilt.dll /s
regsvr32 licmgr10.dll /s
regsvr32 icmfilter.dll /s
regsvr32 hhctrl.ocx /s
regsvr32 inetcfg.dll /s
regsvr32 tdc.ocx /s
regsvr32 MSR2C.DLL /s
regsvr32 msident.dll /s
regsvr32 msieftp.dll /s
regsvr32 xmsconf.ocx /s
regsvr32 ils.dll /s
regsvr32 msoeacct.dll /s
regsvr32 inetcomm.dll /s
regsvr32 msdxm.ocx /s
regsvr32 dxmasf.dll /s
regsvr32 l3codecx.ax /s
regsvr32 acelpdec.ax /s
regsvr32 mpg4ds32.ax /s
regsvr32 voxmsdec.ax /s
regsvr32 danim.dll /s
regsvr32 Daxctle.ocx /s
regsvr32 lmrt.dll /s
regsvr32 datime.dll /s
regsvr32 dxtrans.dll /s
regsvr32 dxtmsft.dll /s
regsvr32 WEBPOST.DLL /s
regsvr32 WPWIZDLL.DLL /s
regsvr32 POSTWPP.DLL /s
regsvr32 CRSWPP.DLL /s
regsvr32 FTPWPP.DLL /s
regsvr32 FPWPP.DLL /s
regsvr32 wshom.ocx /s
regsvr32 wshext.dll /s
regsvr32 vbscript.dll /s
regsvr32 scrrun.dll mstinit.exe /setup /s
regsvr32 msnsspc.dll /SspcCreateSspiReg /s
regsvr32 msapsspc.dll /SspcCreateSspiReg /s
exit




Thanks
and please let me know...

~~ Mark Brown ~~
~ Performance Support Specialist,
~ Microsoft Enterprise Platforms Support
~ This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
~ Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm
~ Note: For the benefit of the community-at-large, all responses to this
message are best directed to the newsgroup/thread from which they
originated.

 

[Guest]

Hello Mark,

This did the trick. It fixed the folder window without restarting the server.
Do you know if this problem occurs only on windows2000 servers, or could this also happen on a WinXP client pc?
Thanks anyway for clearing this up.

cheers,
Daan

 

[Guest]

Another thing I forgot to mention.
On the same machine, the Add/Remove programs in the Control Panel did not function. After these files were (re)registred this problem was solved as well.
thanks
Daan