Known problems on Vista

Below is a list of known problems on Windows Vista. If you know of more issues specific to Vista, please let us know.

  • special columns don't show.

    The Windows explorer in Vista has changed quite a bit, and one of those changes was to abandon the additional columns but introduce a new "property system". Since the property system is file type based, we can't add a column for Subversion information anymore :(

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

  • very slow repository access.

    If every access to the repository is very slow and sometimes even times out, even though everything is working ok from an XP machine, then you most likely hit a special problem in Vista with the TCP-Autotuning feature. To get rid of these problems, open a command prompt and type netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled. You can read more about these problems here.

apart from these known issues, TortoiseSVN will work on Windows Vista.