Tuesday 1 September 2009

Your client does not support opening the list with Windows Explorer

In some cases people deals with the problem opening a SharePoint list in the Windows Explorer view. The problem that caused the message “Your client does not support opening the list with Windows Explorer”, can be solved with this:
  1. Download the Windows update 907306 and install this one (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907306)
    By the way, you need to apply this on the client machine, because it is a local pc security issue

Normally this would be enough. If not, you need to perform the following steps (on the client machine):

  1. Start file explorer and go to Network Places
  2. Add a network place:

    A wizard is started with which you can add a network location:

  3. Type in the url of you SharePoint site
  4. The SharePoint site is now added a a network location and the problem should be solved by now.

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