As above The GDI leak on 9879 makes it practically unusable for me. Currently using explorer from 9841, but there's a rather annoying problem; namely the fact that the Windows Key no longer opens the start menu/start screen
Not in my experience so far. Explorer seems more sluggish displaying folder contents (the new folder icons are horrible at medium size) and the event log is filling up with errors from searchprotocolhost and readyboot crashes. The firewall occasionally stops working as well (according to the notification popup).
How slow? It's been what, part of one week? What are the few features that break by using the old explorer? I'm trying to weigh the torment of this GDI issue with an unpredictable shell. I'd settle for a program that would warn me when GDI Objects get close to 10K, but I don't think one exists. Better: figure out why this isn't a problem for some. That doesn't quite make sense to me. It's not as if some people aren't using the shell.
Are any of you able to access the local Network with this Explorer? It doesn't work for me (works fine through Explorer replacement shell like XYplorer) so I'm wondering if it's the explorer at fault or if I've mucked up something else. EDIT: Seems to have been fixed with the december update.
It's a problem for everyone, but affects people to various degrees based on usage. It's brought on by the taskbar button progress bars. You can start a download in chrome or IE and literally watch the GDI objects increase at a rate of about 4 a second.
Also have this problem with explorer.exe , it messes up the taskbar when I watch movies in MPC-HC so I have to restart explorer everytime
Right because MPC-HC uses the taskbar progress bar, which is what causes the issue. OP: What exactly is broken with 9860's explorer? Trying to see if this is a viable solution.
Sorry if this has been asked already elsewhere, but is it possible to disable the progress bar indicator on the taskbar for all (or just certain) programs? Just wondering if it's possible to avoid this known issue, at least to some degree.
No, unfortunately it isn't. I'm actually trying out 9860's explorer now. So far it's working well, and no GDI leak, just seeing if this is a viable solution until (hopefully) MS issues a hotfix for this bug, although to be fair they might not.
Experimenting with 9860's explorer and so far I haven't come across anything broken and the GDI leak is gone, so I might stick with this.
You can just replace them. Make sure not to forget the mui files as well as the explorer for SYSWOW64
I ended up doing an in-place upgrade from 9879 Pro to 9879 Enterprise, the upgrade kept everything and now I don't have the GDI memory leak.