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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.
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
I tried killing Explorer but that didn't help. What helped in my case was closing Outlook. I had saved some files from an Outlook email message to the folder I was trying to move. For some reason, Outlook was not letting go of the folder.
I don't know enough about Windows to explain why this is (some DLL issue?), but hopefully Microsoft will fix it before people start jumping out of windows, if you catch my meaning.
I discovered several years ago that outlook is intrinsically entwined with explorer when I attempted to change the font size in outlook.
Based on this discovery closing outlook to relieve the folder contents makes sense to me.
Super! It works! Thank you!!!
I've been on this thread for almost a year now and no, there's no permanent solution to this problem. Also Microsoft will NOT fix this since they are releasing windows 10 at the end of the year which will be free for Win7 and Win8 users. I'll just copy and paste for a few more months
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
I tried killing Explorer but that didn't help. What helped in my case was closing Outlook. I had saved some files from an Outlook email message to the folder I was trying to move. For some reason, Outlook was not letting go of the folder.
I don't know enough about Windows to explain why this is (some DLL issue?), but hopefully Microsoft will fix it before people start jumping out of windows, if you catch my meaning.
