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

2010-12-30T07:24:27+00:00

I am not very familiar with all the functions so I may need a bit more help.

Is the http://cid-fb5a28bc4a1cc9b6.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Folder%5E_fix%5E_win7%5E_x86/Folder%5E_fix%5E_win7%5E_x86.rar

folder fix file the solution to the problem ?

Sorry if I bother you too much
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Anonymous

2010-12-30T07:50:25+00:00

read my post from Sunday, December 26, 2010 5:03 AM

it is as simple and as complete as stated

for a 32bit system, you may not have the wow64 registry entries so these may not need to be added
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Anonymous

2011-01-17T00:07:47+00:00

Varredor's method of importing didn't work for me. But I found someone else's folder fix and it works for me, I guess because Varredor exported the keys.

But if you are still having this problem look here:

http://www.techjawa.com/2010/05/01/guide-fix-windows-folder-renaming-could-not-find-this-item/

Download is here:

http://www.techjawa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/FolderFix.zip

I test on my Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit and it work perfectly. Everything else I tried deleting registry and stuff listed here didn't work. Hope this help out someone. But I ended up with this problem when reinstalling Windows 7 and I had autoupdate on. It must have updated to the KB980408 everyone keeps talking about.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980408

Thanks, and I hope everyone gets their problem sorted out.
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Anonymous

2011-02-08T22:46:26+00:00

Thank you so so much, this fixed like 20 problems I had with folders. I couldn't get the "computer" start menu link to appear from "start menu customizations," and this registry overwrite fixed everything! Thanks again!

-Aaron
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