Renaming any folder produces "Could not find this item". Clicking "Try Again" always works. Why?

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This is not the same issue as similar postings that have to do inability to delete folders that contain zero byte files.

If I try to rename any folder in my system, I get "Could not find this item" with the choices "Try Again" and "Cancel". When I click "Try Again", it always succeeds. So - my system isn't crippled - but it is so totally annoying. I can even right-click on my desktop, and choose "New... Folder" and type in a name, and I get "Could not find this item". The interesting thing is that the item's name does change even before I click "Try Again".

If I have a folder named "Folder1" and I rename it to "Folder2", I get the error that "Folder1" Could not be found - which is actually true, as it is already renamed to "Folder2".

Why is Windows 7 looking for the old folder name after renaming? I've also disabled AVG's live scanner to no avail.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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Anonymous

I finally got it.

I used the same solution for the similar issue in Windows Vista. Once i got to my company laptop, i exported this 2 registry keys.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\FolderDescriptions

Merged into my pc and voilà !!

The 'shell' command also works again (ex: shell:personal brings up the account folder)

I uploaded the reg file and you can get it here http://cid-fb5a28bc4a1cc9b6.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Folder%5E_fix%5E_win7%5E_x64/FolderDescriptions.rar

This is for Win7 x64. Use it at your own risk.

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Anonymous

2010-08-11T04:48:57+00:00

Thanks Varredor, works for me. I do wish the fix didn't do so much to the registry, but I just couldn't take the error any more so used it. Hey, if I've got to rebuild from scratch, I'm no worse off than I was before the fix! Thanks again.
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Anonymous

2010-08-03T00:11:07+00:00

Thanks!! Works flawlessly! Also, you posted it on the date of my b'day :-)

Again, thanks!
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Anonymous

2010-06-29T05:44:39+00:00

Thanks so very much!!! I've been using 7 error-free for the past few months but within the past couple days I came upon this renaming problem too.

The 64 bit registry key fix took care of the issue! Verified it working across all three of my drives that previously had given me the problem.

Thank you!
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Anonymous

2010-05-29T05:51:47+00:00

I finally fixed it, the problem was caused by a registry i applied to delete the new w7 libraries, i reverted back to default settings and then i applied a different reg file that only deletes the libraries from view, you can still used it if you want.

All is good again THANKS
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