File explorer seriously broken for Network browsing

Hi folks
the latest build 22454 has a few problems with file explorer and drivers if you install clean rather than update

Network browsing -- doesn't display actual file lists - will show computers / disks / subdirectories but doesn't drill down further --bonkers thing is that the disk will get connected as a network drive and then be browsed properly from "My Computer" . Programs for network access e.g filezilla work OK . Note SMB1 were appropriate has been enabled.





Drivers - few devices missing -- INTEL display, thermal "what not's" , sd card reader etc -- fixed by loading macrium image of previous W11 version and doing update drivers -- going down all the ones in the device list which weren't installed and installing from the macrium image (use browse image facility) and select install from computer use directory from the image : ->Windows>System32->Driverstore. If you don't have drivers there use ones from W10.

(If you don't have Macrium installed copy from a W10 installed system -- NOT the Installation media).

Cheers
jimbo

Jimbo, this could just be an issue with this Dev build, which is not due for release until around fall 2022

Best you check on the latest 22000 build latest I've seen is 22000.184 which should be close to the release preview

barman58 said:

Jimbo, this could just be an issue with this Dev build, which is not due for release until around fall 2022

Best you check on the latest 22000 build latest I've seen is 22000.184 which should be close to the release preview

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Hi there
That one works !!

Thanks

I'm going to forget about these other "Funny builds" -- latest "public" release ones seem better -- I'm getting too old these days to try out all the "experimental stuff" --especially without getting paid for it. -- Networking though IMO is hardly "Specialized" any more -- almost everybody from the simple home user to big corporations needs it to work reliably and properly every time these days !!!!!

Cheers
jimbo

When the Beta was branched off from the Developer stream a week or two ago the Dev builds would have been handed back to the elves in the bowels of Microsoft towers, you can never expect them to follow any logical route to their goals that have a guarantee not to break anything.

Of course that's always the way that the great advances in computing or any other science are originated.