JFileChooser Slowness Bug

2 Comments Published December 1st, 2006 in Java, Windows Tags: .

Yesterday I downloaded NetBeans IDE 5.5. I quickly noticed that was unusable. Not for Netbeans guilt, but for a problem with Swing and Windows XP. When I tried to open a file on netbeans, the ide got frozen. This made me crazy trying to find where the problem was…
The bug was not reproducible on my office pc that runs Windows 2000, and I started (again) thinking to retry a Linux migration.
It seems that the JFileChooser dialog has some conflict with the zipfolder feature: when instantiated it goes scanning files insize “zipfolders” on desktops or somewhere else.
If you notice this problem, just try this at command line prompt:

C:\\> regsvr32 /u %windir%\\system32\\zipfldr.dll

It worked for me. See bug #6372808.
I found this happening on jdk 1.5 and 1.6rc. Not good.

2 Responses to “JFileChooser Slowness Bug”

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1 Riccardo Pasquini Dec 18th, 2006 at 12:52

still using winzoz? :P

bye luigi, have fun…
2 Tres Oct 16th, 2007 at 18:51

Good call.

/* * Unregisters the zipfldr.dll fixes JDialog slowness * issues. (Should be made optional) */ public static void applyFileChooserTweak() {

String osName = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase();
if (!osName.contains("windows"))
return;
try {
System.out.print("Unregistering zipfldr.dll to speed up program "
"(don't worry, windows will reset this)...");
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("regsvr32 /s %windir%/system32/zipfldr.dll");
System.out.println("success");
}
catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("failed");
}
}