Windows 11 Home Single Language | Long Path Option Enabled Via Reg Edit |

DGA said:

I don't know what running those Reg commands means and looked for txt file but could not find it.(Searched for all txt files as well)

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You have to open a command prompt window and then enter them. The reg query commands just check that those values exist in your registry and have been set correctly. The other two will set those values mentioned earlier in the thread for you.


The file would have been saved to your Desktop. The %userprofile% environment variable just expands to C:\Users\<username> so it would be C:\Users\<user name>\Desktop.

Here we go again. Sorry to be grumpy, but I feel like I have explained this one so many times that Google should put my replies at the top of its search results (alas it does not).

Setting LongPathsEnabled=1 is NOT going to make any difference to Explorer. Not one little bit. Explorer supports navigating long paths, (regardless of that setting), but it does not support changing, or adding to, long paths, no matter what you do with the settings.

The LongPathsEnabled=1 setting will make a difference at the command line. Without that setting, you have to prefix long paths with \\?\. With that setting, the prefix is not required.

There may be some applications out there that change their long path support based on that setting, but I have yet to find one. I have tested many file managers and I have found that they either support long paths or they don't, regardless of that setting. You can find a list here:

Thank you