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Old July 13th 19, 03:59 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Fixing problems with Network Connections folder

Hi all,

When I use the Network Connections folder on Control Panel or My Network Places, it shows absolutely nothing. And refreshing it shows a message saying that it cannot find the list of adapters. The networking tab in Task Manager does show this info.

How to fix these problems?
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Old July 13th 19, 06:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Fixing problems with Network Connections folder

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Hi all,

When I use the Network Connections folder on Control Panel or My Network Places, it shows absolutely nothing. And refreshing it shows a message saying that it cannot find the list of adapters. The networking tab in Task Manager does show this info.

How to fix these problems?


Network Connections is a Shortcut, a call to File Explorer.
The shortcut, when executed, passes three CLSIDs or program calls.

https://i.postimg.cc/76Wn47SC/Networ...s-Shortcut.gif

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\
::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}\
::{7007acc7-3202-11d1-aad2-00805fc1270e}

Start in: %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%

https://i.postimg.cc/yd0gWZZp/Regist...onnections.gif

The number in the third CLSID entry {305CA226-D286-468e-B848-2B2E8E697B74}
is related somehow to Control Panels and their Extended Properties.

The entire view is synthesized with shell32.dll calls.

*******

To research this, find an older version of Process Monitor
that still runs under WinXP, double-click the shortcut and
collect a trace of where the synthetic view is actually
looking for the information.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150607...rnals/bb896645

You start ProcMon.exe running first, then double-click the
Network Connections shortcut, then review the trace later
and see what file calls resulted and so on.

Paul


 




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