Hello,
a customer had the problem that he couldn’t start the explorer. The explorer runs in an timeout and pops up an Errormessage: Server execution failed
This error occurs mostly when the “My Documents” is not reachable or corrupt because in case of a folder redirection the folder can reside outside of your Profile Folder.
List the pathes of your folders:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | c:\> reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders"... AppData REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming Cache REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files Cookies REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies Desktop REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Desktop... Personal REG_EXPAND_SZ D:\UserDocuments\myLogin\Documents... |
And check if the folder exists and if they are accessible
1 2 | c:\> dir D:\UserDocuments\myLogin\DocumentsThe system cannot find the path specified. |
If the folder not exists, create it and set the appropriate permissions
1 2 | C:\> D:\UserDocuments\myLogin\DocumentsC:\> icacls D:\UserDocuments\myLogin\Documents /grant %USERNAME%(OI)(CI)(F) |
Michael
After running through at least 12 results from Google – including Microsoft – YOURS solved my problem!
Thank you