This action cannot be completed because the file is open in another program

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• Try to remove a CD image file, get the error message "this action cannot be completed because the file is open in another program.

  I am trying to remove a file from CD image (.img) of my office

  When I try to put it in the bin I get the message

  "The action cannot be completed because the file is open in another program close the file, and then try again"

  First, I checked the obvious things like if the .img file was mounted in a virtual drive - it isn't so I then used LockHunter to find which application is using the file so I can close by the Task Manager.

  Unfortunately LockHunter told me that the file is used by 'System' - which cannot be closed through the TM.

  Any help?

  The problem is that the program that allows you to mount the image always uses the image.  In my case I used the magical disc. Go to the start menu find the magic disk or folder folder, there should be an option to uninstall the magic disc. I tried UN-installing conrtol add and remove programs but it wouldn't let me. You can also click on computer in Start menu and see if the file you want to remove is always mounted (appears as a CD image). In this case that you can click the eject disc hit.

• Error: "this action cannot be completed because the file is open in another program" when trying to remove the Windows Media Player folder to rebuild the database

  Original title: can't rebuild WMP database

  I tried to delete the folder 'Media Play' in App\Data but still received this message "the action cannot be completed because the file is open in another program '. '"

  I need to remove this folder in order to correct the problem with my playlists :(
  

  Hi Unpreghini,

  1. What is the problem you are having with playlists?

  Start the computer in safe mode and then try to recreate the database of Windows Media Player. To do this, try this step.
  Step 1: Start the computer in safe mode
  a. see start your computer in safe mode: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Start-your-computer-in-safe-mode
  b. connection to the problem user account.

  Step 2: Rebuild the media player database
  a. Click Start, type run, click Run, type % LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft, and then click OK.
  b. Select the Media Player folder, and then click on Delete on the file menu.
  c. restart Windows Media Player.
  d. check if the problem persists.

  Note: Windows Media Player will automatically rebuild the database.

  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• Trying to remove a .pdf file and get the error: the action cannot be completed because the file is open in another program.

  Believe me when I say that I restarted the computer and fresh with nothing open.  I tried to remove the .pdf and I always get the message below.  Any other tricks I can try?  HELP! 

  

  So, we finally found the problem.  Since I had the Windows preview window selected in my settings, when you try to remove any PDF, Windows is the thought that the file is open on a preview pane.  Once we cut the setting, I could delete the PDF file.

• "The action cannot be completed because the file is open in another program" error when you try to delete folders in Windows 7

  I've just updated 5 machines for a client to windows XP Pro to Windows 7 Pro. their data is stored on a server (SBS 2003) and so far, if they wanted to move files or folders or update documents Word / Excel sheets that they could do to will be no problem. What seems to happen now, is that if they try to edit files, then re-save (Word Documents, data sheets Excel etc), they are told the file is in use and changes cannot be saved. We have also upgraded their MS office Pro 2003 to 2010 Small Business but this seems to affect all based not only social files, so for example if I try and move a PDF file from one folder to another I get "file is used and can not be moved / deleted.

  I also have another customer with the same problem, same configuration (positions upgraded Windows XP Pro to Windows 7 Pro) they also have problems with moving / deleting files from the shares on a SBS 2003 Server?

  I checked the server and the files are certainly not open where else?

  Can someone help me on this...

  I also tried the following to see if I can cure the problem:

  I changed the parameters of GP on Small Business SERVER 2003 as follows:

  User configuration - administrative models - Windows components.

  • Click on Windows Explorer.
  • Right click on the entry 'disable caching of thumbnails in the hidden thumbs.db files', then select Edit.
  • Select the parameter.

  like apparently Windows 7 stores files in a Thumbs.db file information & to see if that makes a difference, but still no change.

  It's seriously trying my patience and my clients are now wondering if they have windows XP back!

  Surely theres a fix for this somewhere?

  Should also add that I have disabled offline files that I thought that this may be the cause of the problem, but no change.

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  Thank you for visiting Microsoft Community.

  The question that you are running in suitable for the forum on the link below:

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/

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• The Action cannot be performed because the file is open in another program

  I get an error after a few seconds of trying to move several files from my PC Win 7 for Mac OS Maverick, that there is a file already in the destination on Mac. This is true, but it was just put there because I copy over to the same action.  It reads 0Kb and wasn't there until I started.  Then I get an error: the Action cannot be performed because the file is open in another program.  Close the folder or file, and then try again...

  If I click on it a bunch of hold or wait, it takes about 45 seconds. I have to do with all the files, and it occurs when copying from PC to Mac.  PC-to-PC was never a problem.  I even rebooted both computers, so nothing is using all the files.  If I copy a file at a time, I get no error.

  So, I have a single file to not move, no problem.  If move 5 files, the first is fine, but it presents all 5 files in the folder at a time.  All the other files that the first show 0kb. I get the already existing for the error file, and select move and replace.  Can I get the Action cannot be performed because the file is open in another program.  I wait or click several times until it starts to move the file.  This file tells something then other than 0 kb.  When it's done, the error process starts all over.  In Mac, nobody seems to have any idea.

  Hello Ephraim,

  Please update us with the State of the question.

  I suggest posting your issue in our forum TechnNet.

  TechnNet forums that may help you better on this issue. Please follow the link below and post your concern on TechnNet.

  https://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/home?category=w8itpro&filter=AllTypes&sort=lastpostdesc

  Hope this helps you solve the problem, if any question you can write us and we will be happy to help you further.

• In Windows 7 make error "this action cannot be completed because the file is opened in the backup of the computer (JustCloud).

  I can't remove the program "JustCloud" due to the above error. He said that it is a shared file stack.dll.

  Hi JamesHerincx,

  Thanks for posting your query in the Microsoft Community Forums.

  According to the description of the problem, I understand that you can not remove the JustCloud program on the windows computer 7.

  I would appreciate if you can help me with the following information.

  -How do you try to remove the program?

  Try these methods.

   

  Method 1

  Uninstall the program from the control panel and check the status.

  Uninstall or change a program
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/uninstall-or-change-a-program

   

  If you are unable to uninstall the program from the Control Panel, then run method 2.

   

  Method 2

  Run the fix - it and check if it makes a difference.

  Solve problems with programs that cannot be installed or uninstalled

  http://support.Microsoft.com/mats/program_install_and_uninstall

   

  Response with more information to help you.

  Let us know if you encounter problems under windows in the future. We will be happy to help you.

• I can't delete a file on my desktop. I have the following message: "this action cannot be completed because the file is opened in the floppy disk Bus Service" Please help?

  I don't know what Bus Service floppy disk on my computer, I had a friend install a game I wanted to even out of its hard disk of his computer in his home. How can I remove this file, I deleted all the related files through the control panel to uninstall programs feature... I am at a loss. Help, please!

  Hello

  DiscSoftBusService.exe is linked to the bus floppy disk floppy disk service Ltd. it is related to DAEMON Tools software.

  You can check at the place.

  Installation folder: C:\Program daemon tools ultra

  If you want to uninstall, you can track the location for the uninstall program.

  Uninstaller: C:\Program Daemon Tools Ultra\uninst.exe

  Hope that this helps, if you have any additional questions, feel free to post. We will be happy to help you.

• The action cannot be completed because the file is open in Windows Explorer.

  OK, it seems to be coming a lot but no one was able to respond (including Microsoft) so I'll ask, and be as specific as possible.

  Because I work with vector art that I constantly have to save files by crush the and everything was cool with WinXP pro.  I have Win7 Pro and everything was cool, until recently.  Whenever I tried to overwrite my files, I would get an error message saying that the file was either dead or opened elsewhere, but it has happened about 50% of the time.  A launch the re-registration of files with different names.  After obtaining the files re-registered I then try to remove and rename files, but found I couldn't do it anymore, as I was constantly getting the error message "The action cannot be completed because the file is open in Windows Explorer."  Closing and reopening the browser do nothing.  Someone said if not empty the trash bin works, but not for me.  The files are on an external drive, I tried to disable the cache of writing by Device Manager and Windows Management Console (or other) frozen and took the pc with it (nice work, MS!).  Reboot seems to fix the problem for a bit, but he returned quickly and randomly.  It also seems to randomly select to lock files.  Some files I can not change, some that I can.  Others begin to operate after some time of inactivity.

  I tried to disable thumbnails in Explorer and even added a DWORD NoThumbnailCache in the registry, but it still happens.  Basically, I'll have to save all of the new files over and over again and that from time to time be able to remove the "old" while being only randomly too write others.  This question seems to be infestation Vista and Win7 and people have waited for a fix, Microsoft, but was mum on the issue.  If anyone can come up with a solution, it would be great.  It is killing my productivity!

  Common guys...
  Im having this problem too and I've been thought IE9 is at the origin of the problem, some how, I don't want to disturb...

  Here are some solutions:
  Please note that I'm looking, there is not any solution patch for this program by Microsoft, you can maintain it yourself. And correct solutions in this way losses.

  Solution 1: Use CMD.
  0 - note the following 3 steps will complete the process explorer.exe, so your desktop and windows Explorer all open files and any associated process would stop.
  1. run the Task Manager. (by pressing ctrl + shift + esc or etc)
  2 - go to the processes tab.
  3 - find "explorer.exe" and click on the button "complete the process". If you find several explorer.exe, kill them all.
  4. now, click the menu file-> new task (run...)
  5 type CMD, and then click OK.
  6. now you can do something you couldn't have done before with this user interface. Some useful commands:
  -cd: change the current directory. Use 'CD..' to the 'button' in windows Explorer.
  -dir: lists the existing file and folders in the directory current. Use ' dir/p' to the list in the pages.
  -del [file name]: removes the file [filename] existing in the current directory.
  -Rename [name of file] [new file name]: rename the file [old file name] existing or a file existing in the current directory to [new file name].

  Solution 2: Use a different file manager.
  0 - install and run another Manager file as "XYPlore".
  1 Note that the following 3 steps will end your explorer.exe process, so your desktop and windows Explorer all open records and all other related processes would cease.
  2. run the Task Manager. (by pressing ctrl + shift + esc or etc)
  3 - go to the processes tab.
  4 - find "explorer.exe" and click on the button "complete the process". If you find several explorer.exe, kill them all.
  5. use XYPlore UI and do what you want.
  Please note that the problem could happen with this kind of external explorers too. So close any file and go into a secure after your working directory.

  Solution 3: Do it yourself!
  If you can program, there are some codes that might help you. These codes which talks about Im, says MS Windows to remove your annoying pinned files just before you shut down the system.
  Here is an example:
  MoveFileEx ('C:\windows\system32\ld21E.tmp', nil, MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING or MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT);
  This code will work correctly in Delphi from Borland compilers, and as you can see, the "ld21e.tmp" file is deleted after compiling this code and restart your windows.

  I wish I can do better, as to publish an Explorer that do what you want automatically, so I hope that these can be useful.
  Some how you can check this thread too, it may be useful:
  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/vistafiles/thread/ce44b65d-2430-4865-BC31-fd84d3085d74

• The message... The action cannot be completed because the file is opened ststem

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  OK sort decided to disable ready boost tho I would like to delete

• I downloaded a disk Image file, and now when I want to delete it, it says that the action cannot be completed because the file is opened in the system

  original title: Disk Image file

  While there, I downloaded a disk Image file, and now when I want to delete it, it says that the action cannot be completed because the file is opened in the system. Pls help me remove :)

  I discovered what the problem was... :)

• The action cannot be completed because the file is open in Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service. How to make a fence a file on a network share site?

  I could not delete the windows medial player.  On the problem of the firing line not found no problem. A solution to the problem was to remove all the files on media player.  When you try to do it I get the message that I could not delete the file because it was open on a sharing service.  I've never used a media sharing site, and it has to happen when someone else was using my computer.  How close this case and stop any media sharing service which can be opened?

  I could not delete the windows medial player.  On the problem of the firing line not found no problem. A solution to the problem was to remove all the files on media player.  When you try to do it I get the message that I could not delete the file because it was open on a sharing service.  I've never used a media sharing site, and it has to happen when someone else was using my computer.  How close this case and stop any media sharing service which can be opened?

  I do not recommend, you delete all file system, because it can cause you many problems.
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  http://www.filehippo.com/download_unlocker/

  It will show which process is the file/folder you want to delete, and even it will remove the process or service holding the file/folder you want to delete...

  go at your own risk with regard to the deletion of system files
  

• In Win 7 I get an error for various leave and- or "this action cannot be completed because the folder or the file is open in another program."

  I'm money than Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1. The following information are linked to the steps to solve a persistent problem. Please read carefully and answer completely, since you asked users to report carefully on the long process of troubleshooting-advice you provided. I've been at it for six hours now in this round of troubleshooting.

  I tried to solve the continued permission errors and- or "this action cannot be completed because the folder or the file is open in another program."  This happens when attempts to cut-copy-paste------delete files (including the specific details listed below).  I searched on the Microsoft Support site to find answers to solve the problem, including the thread:

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-files/in-Windows-7-getting-error-the-action-cant-be/449b2e05-8ED0-4A72-98bd-dde430d27e10?TM=1356626412321

  In accordance with this notice of sons, I emptied my Temp folder. The problem persisted. I downloaded the app 'Take Ownership' and also tried with periodic and sporadic success. It seemed to lengthen the time between recurrences of the problem - that it would allow me a half a dozen of all cutting------copy-paste and------or remove actions, until the error messages stop me to exercise that or any other action.  Then, I used the task Mgr end explorer.exe and reopen it to see if that makes a difference. For a while it worked, where I could make a few cut sporadically------copy-paste and------or delete actions. Today I'm at the point where I can preform one action, then I have to open task Mgr, end explorer.exe and then restart it to perform again a more cut-copy-paste or delete action. So, I have to return to the task Mgr and repeat the process above, for each new action I want to perform.

  I watched rained down in the above quoted thread, and followed Support Engineer Samhrutha G troubleshooting tips - method 4 - start the computer start-up in minimal mode and to use the diagnostic selective startup. In previous discussions, you have asked for advice as to what you were doing when the problem occurs, so I rated as below:

  I went into msconfig, unchecked "Load Startup items", went to the tab Serivce and allowed only half of them. He was 12 of 24 listed entries. During the tests, programs that are only open on my desk were two windows explore and Notepad to save the results. I got the following results:

  I moved the contents of a folder on my main C drive on my external drive of 3 TB. When I then tried to remove this folder on my external hard drive I got the message

  "You must be authorized to perform this action."

  You need authorization S-1-5-21-602162358-602609370-839522115-1004 to make changes to this file.

  After I clicked retry the record has been deleted. When I went to delete another folder in the same location on my external hard drive, he deleted the first time. He was then three other orders normally external hard disk.

  Then I tried to delete a file in a different location on the external hard drive and the message

  "You need give permission to delete this folder.

  When I clicked on continue what he deleted

  I cut and pasted a file from my external hard drive to my C drive. The record stuck on drive C. He pasted the folder on drive C, but the original folder remained on the external hard drive, even though it was a cut and paste. So when I went to delete the original folder that should have been cut, this message came:

  "You need permission to delete this folder.

  When I clicked on continue he grew up:

  ", You need permission to perform this action."

  You need authorization MYCOMPUTERNAME\MYCOMPUTERNAME to make changes to this file.

  When I clicked Try Again he deleted. But why he would leave the original behind if it was a cut and paste?

  After that, I tried to cut and paste a file to a location on the external external hard drive to another location on the hard drive, after I had seen the contents of that folder and went up a level to the folder parent to try the cut and paste. I received the following message:

  "Cannot perform this action because the folder or the file is open in another program

  Close the folder or file, and then try again.

  When I clicked Try Again it just repeat the error message, don't not allowing me to carry out the action and any other further reduction-copy paste and- or delete actions. I had not opened or closed all other folders, windows or applications, during the above test.

  Based on the Support Engineer Samhrutha G troubleshooting tips 4 method found on the following thread:

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-files/in-Windows-7-getting-error-the-action-cant-be/449b2e05-8ED0-4A72-98bd-dde430d27e10?TM=1356626412321

  (same thread as cited previously) Then I went into msconfig > Services and reduced the number of items in the selective startup of a unit, as I started 11 - instead of 12 - 24 listed entries. Upon reboot, I decided to re - check msconfig. In msconfig > Services he showed 165 points. All had a check in the box next to them. These 165 points, 56 showed as "ongoing" the rest showed as stopped. It would be useful that I specifically what were these 56 entries?

  I continued with the troubleshooting test based on these settings initiated by Support Engineer Samhrutha G tips to reduce the selective startup (remember... it was 11 selected items)

  I started by I try to copy / paste a file from my external hard drive to my C drive. He has successfully completed. When I went back to the location of the original file on the hard disk external and clicked on undo move, the message came:

  "You need give the administrator permission to move this folder.

  When I clicked on continue as he moved the folder

  Then I tried to cut a file on the C drive and stick it in my external hard drive. He successfully completed the task. I then went back to the original location of the file on the C drive and tried to "Undo Move". I received the following message:

  "You need give the administrator permission to move this folder.

  By clicking on continue he grew up

  "You must be authorized to perform this action."

  By clicking on try again, just to repeat the error message and could not undo the move

  I tried to cut the entire contents of a folder on my C drive and stick it in a directory on my external hard drive. He was able to make the cut and paste but left a folder and two files back in the original location on my C drive. When I then went to cut the 3 elements he missed and move them to the location I had initially indicated on my external hard drive - for the first file he brought up in the dialogue that he was already stuck and I would like to merge, etc, that I clicked on none. the second file in the sequence that he grew up:

  "You must be authorized to perform this action."

  When I clicked on continue he grew up

  "You must be authorized to perform this action."

  You need permission from the administrator of the computer to make changes to this file.

  When I clicked on Try Again, he said.

  "Cannot find this article.

  It is no longer in C:\Projects\FolderName. Check the location of the item, and then try again.

  When I clicked Try Again he repeats just this same error message until I had to click Cancel to exit.

  The record was then only showed only two remaining elements. Because the first cut and paste involved 22 files and 3 folders, now I am unable to say which of them got ignored or lost. When I updated the location of the original files he showed that a single folder on the left and the content was empty. When I checked it now duplicated and pasted to the location of this folder on the external drive, he was there with the appropriate content. So he had left this file to the original location, but it was empty. Why this erratic behavior?

  When I went, then, remove this folder remaining from the original location, he deleted successfully. If you understand the above message, you notice that a file has disappeared.

  I now need to mention an incident b4 I started the process of solving problems today. I felt that you needed some context b4 I mention this. I had tried to cut a folder that contains 33 files and 6 records. The six files contained two subfolders whose combined total content contained 28 photos - a mixture of mp4, JPEG and mp3 - for a total of 61 files in the parent folder, I tried to cut and paste. I tried to paste the folder parent on my external hard drive. He started at the cut and paste normally 7.04 GB and towards the end, I got the message

  "Cannot perform this action because the folder or the file is open in another program

  Close the folder or file, and then try again.

  He was unable to finish when I clicked on Try Again, and I had to cancel out. However, he had removed all but one of the folders containing three files and it was not pasted into the new location. They were gone. I did a search on Win for some of the names of known files in this folder, and none appeared. Fortunately I had them on a second external drive. I plugged it to restore files, and of course that means more open task Mgr, ending explorer.exe and reopen in order to restore the files that explore had lost.

  After my results displayed above two rounds of by using a clean boot and selective startup, you can see that it is very difficult to actually diagnose the problem because it happens inconsistently. It is also very time consuming and very, very, very, very, very frustrating.

  I decided to try the method of disabling "just" thumb caching in the registry according to the advice of Robert P in the thread quotes. He said that I should go to Start > Run > gpedit.msc and "disable implementing caching thumbnails in hidden thumbs.db files" that was published of course in OK Win 7 > files, folders, and storage of the Microsoft Community forum. So I typed gpedit.msc in the search bar, and there was no instance of gpedit.msc, only setup.exe, I had to take was to gpedit.msc.  I installed it and after installation I typed again and he has not yet posted. So I rebooted. Restarted it showed up. When I went to run gpedit.msc, he brought to the top of the window with the error message group policy "MMC could not create the snap" when I looked up this article in the Microsoft Community, I found the link to the Win 7 forum, where the Star NIthyananda reported community
  "Gpedit.msc is not available in Windows 7 Home premium.  Discussion here:

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-performance/when-i-open-gpeditmsc-on-my-computer-which-is/b1576a0f-348a-49D8-be70-d83d0f36e8aa?tab=AllReplies#tabs

  He then mentioned

  "If you want to disable caching of thumbnails, you can access the registry editor and go to changing the location according to the value [note: its mine incorrect grammatical syntax and not]".

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\DisableThumbnailCache ".

  with no information on how actually access HKEY_CURRENT_USER

  I found the appropriate information on how to access the registry in Win 7 running regedit, with information on how to navigate to the appropriate location in the registry to disable the thumbnail cache

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\DisableThumbnailCache

  but there is no entry "DisableThumbnailCache.

  I researched and found that you can add it in

  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/10794-thumbnail-cache-enable-disable.html

  I downloaded the Disable_Thumbnail_Cache.reg file. After running Disable_Thumbnail_Cache.reg to merge it into the registry, I then returned to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\

  and yet, there was no entry on DisableThumbnailCache

  The second method mentioned in

  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/10794-thumbnail-cache-enable-disable.html

  has been to access via the Group Policy Editor

  I searched for the Group Policy Editor in Windows 7 search bar and it showed three entries

  A folder titled "for Windows 7 Group Policy Editor.

  a zip file named "add_gpedit_msc_by_jwils876_d3kh6vm.zip".

  Setup.exe

  The "Group policy for Windows 7 Editor" folder contained just the same two files listed below it

  So, I went ahead and ran the setup.exe and then restarted. After the reboot, I did a new search for the Group Policy Editor and he grew up just three results.

  I went back on the WindowsSeven Forum and found advice in the thread

  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/3652-local-Group-Policy-Editor-open.html

  Title: how to open the local Group Policy Editor in Windows 7

  The tips were:

  To search for a group policy or the registry key, value, etc., see:

  Political research group

  The link above leads to:

  "The GPS is going to move to a new end area January!

  http://gpsearch.azurewebsites.NET
  You will be redirected in 15 seconds! »

  I waited about 3 minutes and it went nowhere, so I clicked on the http link and he grew up:

  GetCategoryDependencies() - 500ServerError

  This is where I could and I am now. And I can't "simply" disable caching of thumbnails. Can I return to my workspace and all simply continue with the editing work that I do, which is to cut, or -copy-paste and or delete files that I advance in my workflow. I can't do it without opening task and then Bishop ending and re-open explorer.exe for each order, I want to achieve.

  At this point now a few hours later including writing this message, I think that a new facility would be easier, more rapid and less headaches but that will solve the problem?

  Sense my frustration?  If this is not the case, let me make it clear. It's extremely frustrating. Why Windows doesn't have a fix for this is an error permanently?

  It was mentioned in the original thread that I cited that it would be better to start a new thread and continue to add my comment to the answers already posted 138. This problem has plagued me for months. Please notify

  As you have tried many fixes and changes to the registry, I suspect that your only option is a clean installation

  And having done so don't try not to cut/copy anything other than the data in the files in libraries in any other player. Copy of records of the victory Road will result in the registry locations becoming screwed.

  And if you really need locate the lbraries on another drive will redirect the location of other libraries that animate

• Error message: this action cannot be completed because the other program is busy. Choose ' switch to ' to activate the busy program and correct the problem

  Original title: server busy

  I get a popup server busy with the message: "this action cannot be completed because the other program is busy.  ' Choose ' switch to ' to activate the busy program and correct the problem.  There are two buttons"'Switch To' and 'Retry '.  Neither fixes the problem and I do not understand what they are talking about.

  Hi adarb,

  1. when exactly you get this message?

  2. what applications do you use when you get this message?

  Method 1:

  You can restart the computer and check if it helps.

  Method 2:

  You try to perform a clean boot. A clean boot to check if startup item or services to third-party application is causing this issue.

  You can read the following article to put the computer in a clean boot:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310353

  If your problem is resolved after the clean boot, and then follow the steps mentioned in the article above to refine the exact source.

  After you have used the boot is a way to solve your problem, you can follow the steps to configure Windows XP to start normally.

  Hope this information is useful.

  Jeremy K
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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  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.

• I get this message a lot "this action cannot be completed because the folder or file is open in another program" what he would have to open?

  Original title: OPEN IN ONE OTHER PROGRAM? __ACTION CANNOT BE COMPLETED-

  Running Windows 7 64, I get this message a lot in trying to make things happen in Windows Explorer:

  "The action cannot be completed because the folder or file is open in another program."

  He would have to open?  I tried to close all.

  Ahhh... Here's the clue. I went back to the error message just noew (about 1 minute later) and clicked on TRY AGAIN... and it worked very well.

  This leads me to believe that this is not a matter of rights (I'm admin on a stand-alone computer.

  Its not another program I have running because I has not changed anything in the delay of one minute.

  COULD IT BE SOME #@! ## @! # Indexing PROGRAM of RESEARCH that would be really cool, except that it's causing problems like this?

  All ideas are welcome.

  Hey stevecook3dw,

  Please test and see if you get the same error message when it is started in safe mode. After the test, if you do not receive the error message, you can run clean boot to test which causes this error.

  Step 1: Safe Mode

  For safe mode, see the steps in the article below.

  Start your computer in Mode safe:
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/start-your-computer-in-safe-mode

  Step 2: Perform the clean boot

  Please see this article for detailed information on how to do it.

  How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135

  Note: Ensure that you switch your computer to normal startup mode after completing the troubleshooting steps. Steps are available in the article above.

  Kind regards

  Shinmila H - Microsoft Support

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