Today, we were troublshooting an issue where only folders would display in an explorer view, but they would only show “Last Modified” date – no folder names. You can right click the folder, and view the folder name, and you could add the column “filename” to the display – but the “Last Modified” date was the “default” column.
Here’s a screenshot:

Screenshot - No Folder Names
After some extensive googling, I came across a forum thread that referenced this registry key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PropertySystem\PropertySchema\CachedSchemaHKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PropertySystem\PropertySchema\CachedSchemaHKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PropertySystem\PropertySchema\CachedSchema
We backed up the “PropertySchema” branch, and then deleted the “CachedSchema” key. After killing explorer.exe, and relaunching it the problem was fixed.
This also resovled the issue with Windows Search not being able to find any files that were being searched for.
We aren’t sure, but it seems most likely (due to the state of this machine) that this was caused by a virus.

Be careful! Don’t delete anything other than the contents of the Prefetch folder or your problems may be worse than what you started with! 

