Windows vista sharepoint explorer view

I've been surging through multiple internet forums including microsoft forums and I finally came upon a fix that worked for me and thought that I would share the knowledge. I basically exported the registry change suggested and then restarted the webclient service to correc the issue in VISTA. My windows 7 machine had no problems but I only came across this error when IE8 was updated on all my vista machines.

Additionally, before I had tried to reinstall IE7, Add to the trustsites, install the webfolders fix, restart the webclient services, Add the Basic authentication level 2 in the registry Hey Aseem have you find any solution for this issue. I had to download KB on the user machine and it then worked. I have the same issue on windows 7 with MSS , fixed by doing below. Please try to start webclient service:. Click Start , click Run , type services.

Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Use this forum to discuss topics about deployment for versions of SharePoint prior to Sign in to vote. We are running WSS 3. We are experiencing problems with using Explorer Views on Document Libraries when using IE8, the message we are seeing is "your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer".

I do not know how to proceed. My users really need some kind of explorer based access to the Sharepoint Document Libraries, it doesn't necessary need to be via Sharepoint, athough that would be preferable.

Cheers, Kate. This was great. What could be the reason that the function is not available. Please advise Thanks and regards Zinobia. This option is not available in the modern view. Thanks for reading! This will work in Internet Explorer because that browser may push you to the classic view by default. Then you can open Windows Explorer to see the synced folder. Let us know if you have any questions!

Thank you so much for reading and sharing your experience with us! How does Sync address the viewing of SharePoint files? I used the Explorer view for two reason: 1. I can rename, delete, selectively copy files much more easily than with SharePoint. I can copy files and have the file timestamps preserved. Hi Phillip, when your files are synced to your computer, you can open them to view them like any other file.

Let me know if this answers your question! We are not getting this pop up and Windows Explorer does not open. Are you able to explain what is happening at this point, so we can better understand any prerequisites we are missing, thanks. Hi Ben, thanks for watching. This is a good question. Additionally, Windows Explorer will not pop up automatically; you need to click on it to open.

Then your new library should be listed on the left-hand side. This is done by syncing SharePoint with file explorer. Let's take a look at what you need to do to begin this process. Before we get started syncing SharePoint to File Explorer, there are a few things we need to make note of. Once you've finished working with specific SharePoint files , you may find that you want to unsync them from your computer. Let's take a look at what you need to do in order to do that.

If you've already synced a folder or you have synced a folder with the same name, the process may happen differently. You will see a message about the folder already existing on your PC. You'll be provided the option to use the existing folder on your computer of make a new one. You need to make sure that the folders are the same before clicking Use This Folder.