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2015 May 27
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Windows explorer pop-up descriptions: unfair to Samba
...user moves his mouse away, this recursion continues and can take
minutes to complete (imagine a very large directory structure).
Frighteningly, sometimes (but not always), Explorer.exe locks up
waiting for this process to complete.  During the "lock up", the user
experiences an hourglass/spinning_blue_wheel and the explorer window
does not refresh.
Question: Why does it seem like this undesirable "lock up" happens
only when connected to a Samba server and not when connected to a
genuine Windows Server?
Answer: ?
Question: Why do users report relief after disabling "Show pop-up
descri...