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Problems searching for, renaming or deleting files in windows expl
  1. #1


    scblues Guest

    Problems searching for, renaming or deleting files in windows expl

    When I try to search for a file in windows explorer, the window stops
    responding after I have typed the first letter of the search name.

    When I attempt to delete a file a window appears saying "Calculating time
    remaining" this just hangs; attempting to close the message window causes a
    message "cancelling" to occur in the message window but it continues to hang.
    The explorer window becomes unresponsive.

    When I attempt to rename a file I get a similar problem.

    For each of the three problems I need to go to Windows Task Manager to close
    the unresponsive explorer window.

    I have been running Vista Home Premium for about 2 months but this problem
    only appeared a couple of days ago. I have attempted to solve it using
    system restores going back as far as it will allow me - but no joy.



    Any ideas, anybody?



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  2. #2


    Janneman11 Guest

    Re: hang on deleting and renaming

    I have the same problem with Vista Ultimate. I have installed Acronis True Image a week ago, can this have caused the problem? Or something to do with google desktop, I deinstalled it after hangs in indexing. Also my Outlook 2007 is only starting up in safe mode!
    Anybody has a solution?

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  3. #3


    BPrimmer Guest

    Re: Problems searching for, renaming or deleting files in windows expl


    This is the EXACT issue I am having albeit months later than all of you.
    Did you ever get this issue resolved? I am about to do a complete
    re-install of Vista to fix the issue and i would prefer to avoid
    that.


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  4. #4


    Ramesh, MS-MVP Guest

    Re: Problems searching for, renaming or deleting files in windows expl

    Unable to rename or move folders in Windows Vista - The Winhelponline Blog:
    http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/un...windows-vista/

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    "BPrimmer" <BPrimmer.39cqke@xxxxxx-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message news:BPrimmer.39cqke@xxxxxx-mx.forums.vistaheads.com...

    This is the EXACT issue I am having albeit months later than all of you.
    Did you ever get this issue resolved? I am about to do a complete
    re-install of Vista to fix the issue and i would prefer to avoid
    that.


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