Vista - renaming files problem..

Vista is not letting me rename a folder, it says one some files inside
are open in a program but I don't have any files open in any program..
XP used to do the same thing; what is solution here, pls..

thanks............

Have a look at Task Manager to see if a related Process is running.

"maya" <maya778899@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:fn84if$gkb$1@xxxxxx

This will happen if you have a folder selected above the file or folder you
want to rename. Select the file or folder you want to rename, then rename
it. Right clicking and choosing rename does not select the folder or file.

"maya" <maya778899@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:fn84if$gkb$1@xxxxxx

maya <maya778899@xxxxxx> wrote in news:fn84if$gkb$1@xxxxxx:
First thing is try a reboot.

Next, does it tell you what files are in use ? If not, you can try to
move all the files into a temp folder and the one(s) that won't move are
in use. Note the filenames of the 'in use' one(s).

You can d/l Sysinternals Process Explorer from MS and use that to find
what process is using the files. PE does not need to be installed, just
unzipped to a folder. PE is a task manager replacement that is far more
capable than MS task manager.

Start PE, goto 'Find' menu, select 'Find DLL or Handle'. A box will pop
up to enter a search into. Enter the file name that would not move, press
return or click 'Search'. The bottom of the box will fill with any
process(es) that have that file open.

After you find which process is using the file(s), we can look inot it
more.

"AlexB" <alexb@xxxxxx> wrote in
news:e0EPtYhXIHA.4868@xxxxxx:

Dude....WTF ?! Can you not understand anything ?
You don't even know what going out 'on a tangent' really means.
No. Wrong again. The OP....

'Vista is not letting me rename a folder, it says one some files inside
are open in a program but I don't have any files open in any program..
XP used to do the same thing; what is solution here, pls..'

The OP there says Vista says there are files in use in the folder, DUH!

I'm only going by what I was told in the OP. I'm not making up a bunch of
different scenarios of what they could have possibly meant. I am answering
the question as it is posed. Nothing more, nothing less.

I don't know. I'm not going to sweat it until the OP posts back with a yea
or nay.
It wouldn't be a system folder they are trying to rename so, and I
seriously doubt they made any files read only or hidden manually.
You are unnecessarily overthinging this.....again.
Another blatant example of your reading comprehension abilities. If you re-
read the post, you will see....well probably not. Let me refresh your tiny
fish-sized memory. I said DON'T use Task Manager, but instead use Process
Explorer, and then went on to explain how you can find the process, if you
know the name of the file, if you know the name of the file, if you know
the name of the file.
Well, if it's THAT important to rename the folder, and there are no files
in it and the locked folder can't be resolved and it's not a system folder,
instead of wasting what could be hours worth of researching for a fix and
manual registry searching here's what I would do......

I'd boot from Win98 boot floppy, start the free utility NTFS4DOS, CD to the
parent folder of the offending folder, do an RD and then a MKDIR with the
new name.

That would take 5 minutes, at most, since I already have a Win98 boot disk
with NTFS4DOS on it, and quicker than slaving the drive into another PC.

So now, please stop picking apart my posts if you don't *completely*
understand what is being said.