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

Anonymous
2009-11-11T13:37:01+00:00

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
2010-04-29T20:39:55+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2010-04-28T23:27:36+00:00

    I see a lot of people are having this problem.

    This is April 28th, 2010 & I have the exactly the same occurring problem.

    I've tried tried new user account, sfc and checked disks, enabling indexing then disabling indexing, uninstalled all MS updates & reinstalling MS Updates.

    Nothing Works.

    Least I am not the only one having this problem.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-04-08T09:17:27+00:00

    Same issue... no one seems to know how to fix this anywhere =(

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-02-07T20:23:19+00:00

    i have the same problem.... renaming, moving, copying...... and it is not with all folders....

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-02-06T02:21:56+00:00

    Same issue here Win 7 64 bit, tried new user account, sfc and checked disks : nothing helps...

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