Rob Gillespie
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This is something that has been bugging me for a long time, ever since I first got Windows 2000 Pro and starting using it full time.
It concerns the following error message I get when trying to delete Folders:
It concerns the following error message I get when trying to delete Folders:
The ONLY way to get rid of the problem is either to reboot, or to kill the Explorer.exe process, start another and then delete the folder.
I've been trying to narrow down the circumstances this happens in. This how it goes:
[*]Create a new folder on any drive in the system[*]Go into the folder and create a new file (i.e. text file), or copy and paste in one from somewhere else.[*]Delete file[*]Try and delete folder - and I get the above error message.
However, if I open the file inside the folder before deleting it - just opening, not even editing it - I can then delete the folder with no problems whatsoever.
I've been trying this for the last hour and the results seem consistant.
Does anyone have the slightest idea what is going on?
For the record, all partitions in the system are FAT32, but I did try formatting one of them in NTFS and got the same results. The same problem even happens in Safe Mode.
Help!
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