I am running Win 8.1 Enterprise, recently repair refreshed. When I am cleaning up my desktop and internal files, I frequently (+80% of the time) cannot move a file or folder from one directory to another without getting and error message saying that it cannot be moved because it is open in another program.
Of that 80% of the time, 99% is because Windows Explorer is using it. Seems like, of course it is being accessed by Windows explorer since I am using that utility of Windows to move the file. Duh!?! But this happens even with files\folders that have not been accessed for months. It is so frequent that I just go ahead and check and unblock every file\folder I want to move with a program called 'Lock Hunter' before I try to move the file(s).
This is the same for renaming files\folders and any directory type action. This seems crazy. I would think Win Explorer is there to help us move things around instead of preventing it all the time. I don't recall Win 7 ever doing this. It all seems to have started with Windows 8.
Does anyone have any idea how to stop Windows from doing this?
Thanks in advance,
RD Wirr
Of that 80% of the time, 99% is because Windows Explorer is using it. Seems like, of course it is being accessed by Windows explorer since I am using that utility of Windows to move the file. Duh!?! But this happens even with files\folders that have not been accessed for months. It is so frequent that I just go ahead and check and unblock every file\folder I want to move with a program called 'Lock Hunter' before I try to move the file(s).
This is the same for renaming files\folders and any directory type action. This seems crazy. I would think Win Explorer is there to help us move things around instead of preventing it all the time. I don't recall Win 7 ever doing this. It all seems to have started with Windows 8.
Does anyone have any idea how to stop Windows from doing this?
Thanks in advance,
RD Wirr
My Computer
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- OS
- WIN 8.1 Enterprise