TortoiseSVN Keeps Crashing Explorer on Windows Vista

Question

Has anyone else experienced this? I have uninstalled and reinstalled TortoiseSVN as well as followed a suggestion I found online about turning off the icon overlays but Explorer on Windows Vista will still crash when I perform certain operations like pulling up the context menu (i.e. Right Click), hitting the delete key, hitting Ctrl+C and the likes, etc. Even hitting Windows+E crashes explorer often.

It isn't consistent but this happens for the majority of the time. I haven't tried to update to v1.6.3 yet (just noticed that it was released); however, has anyone else experienced this issue and figured out a way to resolve it?

Update: Currently install version is 1.6.2.16344.

Update 2: Uninstalled 1.6.2.16344, rebooted, Installed 1.6.3.16613 and the issue remains.

Answer 1

I've been having this issue too... very frustrating. Sometimes my PC would perma-hang and sometimes would hang for a few seconds and then come back in VGA mode as if the graphics driver has been uninstalled... Either way I would have to reboot.

anyway, this is my latest offering that appears to be working for me so far.

In the tortoiseSVN settings/advanced, set showContextMenuIcons to false.

Doesn't look as good, but as I say, so far no problems.

cheers

Answer 2

I have windows xp and the newest version does this to me. :\

Answer 3

From the TortoiseSVN.net page about known vista issues:

Version 1.4.2 has some problems with the explorer. Use version 1.4.3 which has this fixed.

An update might help, in case you're still on <1.4.3

Answer 4

We had this problem with one release on one of our dev's systems, but upgrading to the latest fixed it. Try upgrading - it will probably correct your issue.