Cannot create a new folder in Windows Explorer

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• When I create a new folder in Windows Explorer, I hit F5 to refresh the screen, the file disappears.

  When I create a new folder in Windows Explorer, I hit F5 to refresh the screen, the file disappears. If I try to create the same again, I get a message that I already have a folder with that name. It is nowhere on my computer.  I've searched for it & he's not here.

  R.Click on the desktop, properties, desktop, customize, web, search & check

  "lock desktop items" closes when thru.

• Cannot create the new folder in windows 7

  My PC cannot create a new folder in windows 7, I don't know what to do, please help.

  You have installed chrome? It's looking like a recent update of chromium may be the cause. Here are two patches.

  How to remove and restore the default context Menu items 'New' in Windows 7 and Windows 8
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/28677-new-context-menu-remove-restore-default-menu-items.html

  If still no joy, see the 'response' by Linda Yan in this thread.
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7itprogeneral/thread/97de8a2a-12f2-4381-A409-a78f4ae551cf/#99395761-56de-4a76-8C2A-eab498ad735a

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• Cannot create a new folder in windows 7 Professional 64-bit

  I can't create a new folder in Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.  Cannot create SkyDrive Explorer, or the desktop.  It is not an option when right clicking on, even if the new compressed folder is an option.  Thank you.

  See if the message marked as the answer in this thread helps.
  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-files/unable-to-create-a-new-folder-in-Windows-7/3c5951c8-e3b0-4E5B-99A5-744f842fe558
   
   

• Cannot create a new folder in the Explorer of Windows 7

  Somehow, I lost the ability to create new folders in the Explorer of Windows 7.  Explorer opens and the button "New folder" is always at the top, but when you click it nothing happens.  Also, when I right click in a directory I don't have the ability to create a new folder.  What happened and how this can be fixed?

  You have installed chrome? It's looking like a recent update of chromium may be the cause. Here are two patches.
   
  
  How to remove and restore the default context Menu items 'New' in Windows 7 and Windows 8
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/28677-new-context-menu-remove-restore-default-menu-items.html
   
   
  If still no joy, see the 'response' by Linda Yan in this thread.
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7itprogeneral/thread/97de8a2a-12f2-4381-A409-a78f4ae551cf/#99395761-56de-4a76-8C2A-eab498ad735a
   
   
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• New folder in Windows Explorer is not visible until I press refresh

  Hello!

  If I create a new folder in Windows Explorer to a network drive (which is a DFS share) under Windows 7 Professional 32 bit, the new folder is not visible until I have press F5 (refresh). Is there a fix or a solution to this problem?

  Thank you

  Kampi

  Hi kampi,.

  You can wait for a while and do not try to rush by pressing f5, because it can take a while to showup on network drive.

  To work around the problem, you can try to disable the Client of Microsoft Networks in the LAN connection properties

  a. open management of network and sharing Center.

  b. go to the Local network connection and click Properties.

  c. clear the Client for Microsoft Networks option and check.

  Hope this information is useful.

  Jeremy K
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

  If this post can help solve your problem, please click the 'Mark as answer' or 'Useful' at the top of this message. Marking a post as answer, or relatively useful, you help others find the answer more quickly.

• Cannot create a new folder name

  Cannot create a new folder and name it.  The name I give always comes back again record when I hit enter.

  I'm assuming that happens with all new folders in the special folder that you use and that you use a "legal" name for the folder - but that is determined when you answer questions of Malke.

  It's maybe a permissions issue.  You will have to perhaps take full rights on the folder or even take in charge of the case.

  To view your permissions, right-click on the file/folder, click Properties, and check the Security tab.  Check the permissions you have by clicking on your user name (or group of users).  Here are the types of permissions, you may have: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/What-are-permissions.  You must be an administrator or owner to change the permissions (and sometimes, being an administrator or even an owner is not sufficient - there are ways to block access (even if a smart administrator knows these ways and can move them - but usually should not because they did not have access, usually for a very good reason).)  Here's how to change the permissions of folder under Vista: http://www.online-tech-tips.com/windows-vista/set-file-folder-permissions-vista/.  To add take and the issuance of right of permissions and ownership in the right click menu (which will make it faster to get once it is configured), see the following article: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/05/21/take-and-grant-full-control-permissions-and-ownership-in-windows-7-or-vista-right-click-menu/.

  To resolve this problem with folders, appropriating the files or the drive (as an administrator) and give you all the rights.  Right-click on the folder/drive, click Properties, click the Security tab and click on advanced and then click the owner tab.  Click on edit, and then click the name of the person you want to give to the property (you may need to add if it is not there--or maybe yourself). If you want that it applies to subfolders and files in this folder/drive, then check the box to replace the owner of subcontainers and objects, and click OK.  Back and now there is a new owner for files and folders/player who can change the required permissions.  You can change now switched to read-only (even if the main folder indicates that they are always read-only - you can access yourself as the owner).  You can keep them in read-only to other users, customers and administrators even (although they can support themselves and access, if they wish, and it is really not that you can do to stop it except protect the file with a password by using a 3rd party product.)  Here is more information on the ownership of a file or a folder: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67717-take-ownership-file.html.  To add take ownership in the menu of the right click (which will make it faster to get once it is configured), see the following article: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/.

  Good luck and I hope this helps!

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• Why is that I was able to create a new folder on windows 7?

  Why can't I create a new folder on windows 7? No matter where or how I try, I can't create it. I tried the shortcut tab on windows Explorer
  and right-click on the desktop but nothing works: /.

  Hi Ortiz,

  To help you to propose measures to solve the problem, I would appreciate if you could answer the following questions:

  1. you receive an error message or error code?

  2 did you do changes on the computer before the show?

  Follow the suggestions below for a possible solution:

  Perform the steps from the link below and see if it helps.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7itprogeneral/thread/97de8a2a-12f2-4381-A409-a78f4ae551cf

  Important:  This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems can occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you proceed with caution. For added protection, back up the registry before you edit it. Then you can restore the registry if a problem occurs.

  For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  322756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/)

  Hope this information helps.

• Why I can not create a new folder in Windows Contacts and rename it?

  I keep my contacts in Windows Contacts, divided into folders named category.  In the past, I was able to press the button "New folder" to create a new folder, and then rename the folder.  Now, I can create a new folder, but Windows doesn't allow me the no - name.  As soon as I type the name of the new folder and press ENTER, it goes back on behalf of the "new folder". Can someone explain what happened?

  If possible, although I honestly don't see how the shortcut should influence.  Try this, just delete your shortcut, then take the icon on the left side of the address bar of the 'work' contacts folder and drag your desktop and drop it.  This example is part of a control panel, but it works the same:

  

• Cannot create a new folder, right-click and the option is not there

  Cannot create a new folder, right-click and the option is not there

  Hi Walt,.

  Please follow the procedure described here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/28677-new-context-menu-remove-restore-default-menu-items.html

  I hope this helps.

  See you soon
  Julia

• Cannot create more new folders in Windows 7

  Well this problem starts just today after the installation and uninstallation of some free Antivirus software I try for the first time. Before that, I was about to install a new burning program and I decided to create a manual restore first, point in case something went wrong. After you install Microsoft Security Essentials, I'm not too sure if that caused the problem, but that's when I noticed that I couldn't create more new folders when I click the button new folder in Explorer or when I right click and select new, there was no new folder option. I have a feeling this could very likely be a registry problem, but I have almost no idea how to manually re-enable it in the registry. There were a few solutions lying around and showing some tips on changing the context Menu, but whenever I tried to change the registry, I get an error saying that the changes may not be saved. I even download the ShellEX utility but noted the option new folder that if she was clearly not or just was not working as it should. I'll try to use the system restore to reload the manual restore point I had created, which I was when I was pretty sure that everythng was working fine. I hope that that would solve my problem, because there is not more updates update critical for me to install just might solve the problem. I hope that someone who has an alternative solution to what I do can provide details in response to this. Your help would be very appreciated.

  Hi Sop_the_Otaku,

  -Where exactly you are trying to create a new folder? It's somewhere on the C drive or on the desktop?

  However, you can follow the steps below and let us know the result.

  Step 1

  Try using the command prompt and try to create a new folder and check if you can create a.

  To do this, follow the steps below:

  1. click on start.

  2. in the start search box type CMD and press to enter.

  3 type cd... publicity and press ENTER, repeat the cd... and press ENTER until you have c:

  4. now, type the following at the command prompt:mkdir folder_name
  Here, folder_name is the name of desired folder

  5. check if the folder is created in the drive C

  Step 2

  Access the link below and follow the steps suggested by Linda YanonMonday, May 24, 2010 08:38 and check if it helps you to solve the problem.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en/w7itprogeneral/thread/97de8a2a-12f2-4381-A409-a78f4ae551cf

  Step 3

  If the steps above do not perform a restore of the system on your computer and check to see if it helps you create a new folder

  To restore the operating system to an earlier point in time, follow these steps:

  1. Click Start, type system restore in the search box, and then click System Restore in the list programs.

  If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type your password or click on continue.

  2. in the System Restore dialog box, click on choose another restore point and then click Next.

  3. in the list of restore points, click a restore point created before you started having the problem, and then click Next.

  4. click on finish.

  The computer restarts and system files and settings are back to the State they were in when the restore point was created.

  Access the link below to see the system restore:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/what-is-system-restore

  I hope this helps. Let us know the results.

  Thank you and best regards,

   

  Srinivas R

  Microsoft technical support.

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• CannotCreate new folder in Windows Explorer

  I am running Windows 7 Professional.  When I go to Windows Explorer, I can watch all my files, but when I click on "New folder" nothing happens.  I can take an existing folder, copy it and rename it by creating a new folder.  I've been running this version of Windows for over a year and it worked normally until a month ago.  Please tell me how to run again.

  What happened a bit in the past, but we see a lot more often recently. Here are two options.
   
  
  How to remove and restore the default context Menu items 'New' in Windows 7 and Windows 8
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/28677-new-context-menu-remove-restore-default-menu-items.html
   
  
  If still no joy, see the 'response' by Linda Yan in this thread.
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7itprogeneral/thread/97de8a2a-12f2-4381-A409-a78f4ae551cf/#99395761-56de-4a76-8C2A-eab498ad735a
   
  
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• new file is empty. Cannot create a new folder. How can I fix it?

  When I click on "FILE" 'NEW', it is 'empty'. "." I can't create a new folder.  How can I change this so that it shows the folder?  Also.  When I chick on a hypertext link, I get a message that, because of the restriction on the computer, I can't access the hyper link.  How can I change this so that I go to the hyperlink?  Thank you

  Hi Bennie,.

  1. are you referring to any program or folder?

  2 is the limited issue while accessing the hyperlink for any program in particular?

  3 is. your computer connected to a network of area?

  Try the following and see if it helps.

  Method 1:

   

  Try using the command prompt and try to create a new folder and check if you can create a.

  To do this, follow the steps below:

  a. Click Start.
  b in the start search box type CMD and press to enter.
  c. type cd... publicity and press ENTER, repeat the cd... and press ENTER until you have c:
  d. now, type the following at the command prompt:mkdir folder_name

  Here, folder_name is the name of desired folder

  e. check if the folder is created in the C drive.

  
  Method 2:

  Try to disable the third-party security software and check.

  Disable security software: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Disable-antivirus-software

  Note: If you need to temporarily disable the security software, you should reactivate as soon as you are finished. If you are connected to the Internet or a network, while your antivirus software is disabled, your computer is vulnerable to attacks.

  
  Method 3:
  
  I suggest you perform a SFC Scan and check.

  Refer to the steps in the following Microsoft article.

  Use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files on Windows: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833

  Keep us informed on the status of the issue.

• File system 512 error - cannot create a new folder

  Hello

  I can't create a new folder under libraries/photos. I have several folders and subfolders, but lately when I try to create a new folder directly in 'photos', I get a "file system 512 error." I can still create new folders in the existing folders, but not directly in the library/images directory. I am confused because I have done this several times before.

  I downloaded and ran an expensive registry fix program and have the latest Windows. Neither helped.

  All ideas are most appreciated. Thank you!

  Hi Alex

  You're right, I was assuming that the my images from your user account folders was in this library.

  OK, let's try again.

  Go to the images of C:\Users\Public\Public folder. Create a new folder in the folder public photo.

  Now go back to the photo library and see if this new folder appears here.

  Let me know.

  Thank you for using Windows 7

  Ronnie Vernon MVP

• Cannot create a new folder or cant find where it is...

  I see the ability to create a new folder when I'm in my library, but when I choose to do, I don't see the folder!  Help, please!

  Do, or you have installed Chrome? It appears that an update of Chrome, (mid April 2013), is responsible for the loss of the option new folder. Even if Chrome has not been installed, here are two patches.
   
   
  How to remove and restore the default context Menu items 'New' in Windows 7 and Windows 8
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/28677-new-context-menu-remove-restore-default-menu-items.html
   
   
  If for any reason, the zip file doesn't work for you, check out the 'response' by Linda Yan in this thread.
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7itprogeneral/thread/97de8a2a-12f2-4381-A409-a78f4ae551cf/#99395761-56de-4a76-8C2A-eab498ad735a
   
  
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