Perforce Windows shell integration
August 10th, 2006 by 
Ioan Cocan
I’m happy again. Perforce shell integration used to make my machine hang on every file browse operation. As we are working with a remote Perforce server we’ve set up a Perforce proxy so we do not hit the remote US machine for the same files.
If the proxy was up and remove server communication was down Windows could not load even items on desktop. Even with all connections in place, right clicking or browsing became a nightmare. Fed up with all this I decided to take the final drastic measure: uninstall the Windows client and somehow work with command line tools. Then it hit me: the Uninstaller has a remove Explorer integration option. Back to work.
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September 22nd, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Where did you find perforce shell integration? Thanks.
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:20 pm
There is a p4winst.exe file that is available for download from their site. That includes integration for Explorer.
November 30th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
thanks — this make me so happy
May 24th, 2007 at 10:00 am
I had a similar problem. When I would do a netstat I would see a lot of open sockets. I installed the latest version on their website 2006.X and now it seems better.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
If you cant find uninstall, do following:
- rename C:\program files\perforce\p4exp.dll
- restart explorer