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this is annoying
the files or folders in question are not open in another program, windows is just refusing to let them be moved or deleted due a recent action ie: photographs moved elsewhere etc
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Open Windows explorer.
Click ‘Organize -> Folder and search options’ (or ‘View -> Folder options’).
Select the ‘View’-tab.
In the ‘Advanced settings’ window, disable ‘Launch folder windows in a separate process’.
You may need to force restart all explorer instances (via task manager) or reboot your computer if the setting is not applied immediately.
Of course my setting for "Launch folder windows in a separate process" was already disabled. But get this, I enabled it, then disabled it and now it works.
Ok, this issue just started two days ago for some unknown reason. No one really messes with the computers other than me and I haven't touched this laptop in a while. In fact, the last time was when the paralegal mistakenly hit "yes" on the Windows 8.1 update annoying popup. Before it completed she told me so I successfully DID NOT accept the EULA and it rolled back the changes. That only stole an hour from our day.
So evidently now the hidden, cached image from the preview pane prevents deletion of a file. When I switched the view option now the preview pane says No preview available.
C'mon Microsoft, stop messing around!
What are the exclamation marks for? Looking to recruit others to some restart fetish you have? We know this. We know we can restart. Look, if someone gets constantly constipated after eating normal food, there's something wrong and the body needs attention. "Hey, just get an enema!" That's how stupid your response is. There is no answer but a correct one. Every time people write kindly an inappropriate workaround response to such an inexcusable problem, Microsoft gets a pass. "Hey, see those people will deal with this, we don't have to do anything". No single answer in this thread, or other threads with issues as ridiculous as this problem is, should be at all apologetic. It's great to help pitiful customers find a temporary solution, but those temporary solutions should at all times be accompanied with seething contempt for a company who has amassed so much money from us that every feature in any OS they've launched since XP should be bomb proof from day 1.
No more of this "hey, restart your computer, it's a happy day!" BS Do you live in some kind of group home for crying out loud?
A fabulously articulate and deeply useful 192 word contribution by a self-obsessed member of Forum-User Bashers Anonymous… in response to 6 little words somebody submitted six months ago. A master of many aliases, fearless FUBA strikes again.
Maybe Microsoft's own folks don't realize how freaking ridiculous it is that not only do they change the functionality of the basic programs, but they change the terms. So here, MS says "open Windows Explorer" Hello? My Windows 8 came with File Explorer. Which doesn' t have the same command menus as Windows Explorer.
How does MS think that frustrating the **** out of its loyal users, and causing enormous productivity issues for days on end as we (and our employees) try to once again figure out where the damn gas pedal is. Gee, I wonder why people are migrating to Google.
