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I finally decided to go back to a system restore point I had set in the past but then the problem continued to persist there. Finally I sucked it up and did a reset. I personally didn't lose much because it's a practically new computer.

Once I reset the computer and installed everything again I tried installing that program. After I tried installing, it failed and then nothing else could install. It would be interesting if you had tried to install the same thing at one point. It's unfortunate that there is very little support for Windows 10 on the microsoft or windows website seeing that it has many issues.

Hopefully someone takes note of this and takes action to fix it before it happens to more people. So yah, a reset was the only thing that worked for me so that I could install things again. If you have an older computer this might not be an option for you.

You could try customer support, but even after 2 hours of the guy remotely controlling my desktop he couldn't figure it out. Keep in mind this was the only guy that actually knew what he was doing at all, everyone else would go afk for like 10 minutes and then come back and tell me to check for updates or restart my computer. I also had to scavenge through the support people until I found one that could I actually speak english, pretty sure one guy was using google translate. I have been having the exact same problem, since I downloaded Windows 10!!!

I can NOT install or update anything!!!!!!! I am not a happy camper!!!!! Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Hi, Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Thank you. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. A lot has to do with thumbnail caching, which by the way are not used only for images, they are also used for Microsoft Office documents.

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Then now and then. Now it happens ALL the time. As Tina mentioned, this was not a problem in the older operating systems. If I am not mistaken, this problem became apparent in Windows 7 and continued to be an issue in Windows 8 and now in Windows In the past I had always managed to work around this problem but your help using Process Explorer worked like a charm.

I wanted to post a big thank you for the help. Thanks, Chris. Glad my article was helpful. I was able to fix the issue. Jacob, if you are accessing files on a different computer workstation or server , restart both the computers. Right-click explorer. Another thing to try is to disable all the applications on the Startup tab in the Task Manager, then restart the computer. If none of these tips help then contact Microsoft tech support.

Easiest solution Go to task manager Kill all explorer. I simply stopped syncing them and the problem was solved. The mere fact that this is even a thing goes to why Windows is the worst operating system in existence for Desktop computing. Precisely why I switched to a Mac a decade ago. Of all the suggestions above, the only one that worked for me was to close explorer from Mike on March 24, at pm.

I had problems renaming a folder and syncing it with OneDrive. Once I closed explorer, I used the command prompt from Task Manager, renamed the folder, started up explorer again and it was all fine. I uninstalled a program and a file was previously open in it. Fortunately Process Explorer worked.

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Post navigation Previous Post. Next Post. On December 27, Thank you very much, using process explorer helped me like a miracle. When you launch Lightroom Classic, you encounter the error " The Lightroom catalog cannot be opened because another application already has it opened.

Go to the folder where your catalog file [yourcatalogname]. By default, Lightroom Classic saves catalogs in the following folders:. Move the [yourcatalogname]. When Lightroom Classic is running with a catalog open, it creates a [yourcatalogname]. This file ensures that there is no other access to the catalog in use.