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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.
Yeah, that will do it. But I have a number of folders open in sequence and some go deep. Very inconvenient that I have to close all folders (it will take me 10 mins to re sort the folders to how I have them now) and restart the computer (more time). Is there a function that allows me to re-open all folders to to previous session layout?
No need to reboot just log off and back on.
To my knowledge there is no way to save the position of those folders and hopefully everyone here is signed up to receive the free Windows 10 update rolling out at the end of this month.
Maybe this issue will resolved in 10...
It isn't.
Finally, after several months suffering this and trying every workaround, I found something that has really stopped the annoying message and that should help everyone that is seeing this error when they shouldn't, specially those who need/want to see the Preview Pane and thumbnails instead of the icons:
1 Run gpedit (type run on Windows start menu, click on app result, type gpedit)
2 On the left pane go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > File Explorer
3 Click on File Explorer and on the right pane, right click on "turn off the caching of thumbnails in hidden thumbs.db files" > Edit > Enabled > Ok
4 Reboot.
Voila! I can rename, move and delete any file or folder as much as I want, as fast as I need...
Dear friend,
it is denying me access and shows the list with little red dots with an x in the middle.
This is a administrator user ... any ideas?
thank you
B
