Renaming Software Distribution Folder Causes Crash Vista
Creating or Renaming a Folder Causes Explorer To Crash These. I went onto a different user and i can create and rename folders and it works. Vista Forums.
Remove or Disable Conflicting Software Some third party programs can cause errors in the Windows Update service. If you have any spyware or so called “ Internet/web accelerators” remove or disable them and try running Windows Update again. Reset the Windows Update Software Distribution Folder A common Windows Update problem is a corrupt file in the Windows Update distribution folder. Open the command prompt with administrative privileges by typing cmd in the Start Menu’s search box. Right-click cmd in the search results and select Run as administrator. Stop the Windows Update service by typing net stop WuAuServ in the command prompt and then press Enter on your keyboard. Note: Make sure the command prompt says Windows Update service was successfully stopped before you go on to the next steps.
Type%windir% in the Start Menu’s search box and press Enter. Right-click the folder named SoftwareDistribution and select Rename.
When the SoftwareDistribution folder is highlighted blue rename it to SoftwareDistributionOLD. Go back to the command prompt running as administrator and type net start WuAuServ and then press Enter. Note: Make sure the Windows Update service was successfully started before you go on to the next steps. Try running Windows Update again. Check System Files for Errors If you still can’t update Windows you need to make sure all of the system files are in working order and none of them have been changed or corrupted.
Open the command prompt with administrative privileges by typing cmd in the Start Menu’s search box. Right-click cmd and select Run as administrator. Type sfc /scannow and press Enter. Restart the computer when the scan has finished. Still need help?
Are you doing your renaming and deleting from the right-click context menu? If yes, this problem is usually caused by ill-behaved third-party programs that shove themselves into the context menu. Its possible that if you're using or had used some 3rd party program its not compatible in Vista or Windows 7. Another issue that could be the culprit is that could it be you're overclocking your system? If so reduce the speed in bios and see if that doesn't help as that too will cause freezes. MCSE, MCSA, MCDST If this post helps to resolve your issue, please click the 'Mark as Answer' or 'Helpful' button at the top of this message. By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster.
Renaming Software Distribution Folder
Hi, This issue can occur by incompatible third party programs or virus. I suggest you perform the following steps to troubleshoot the issue. Meanwhile, Cdobbs's suggestion is also worth to try.
Perform a to check the result. If the issue disappears in the Clean Boot environment, we can use a 50/50 approach to quickly narrow down which entry is causing the issue. Use ShellExView tool to disable some third party item.
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The following link has some info and a download to ShellExView which you can use to selectively disable third party context menu handlers to find out a problematic one: 3. Run antivirus program and perform a full scanning. Thanks, Novak.
Rebooting is not an answer, as the problem goes away on rebooting. As I get this issue a few weeks after the last reboot it would mean I would need to stay in Safe Mode for a month or so to see if it comes back!
SFC reported no issues. ShellExView and ShellExView /wow64 have a few non-Microsoft extensions, and disabling them had no impact - the problem is still there at the moment (do I need to reboot for the disabling of the extension to take effect?). If I kill explorer.exe and restart it then the problem goes away. So this has not been resolved yet?
I see it happen on 2 different Windows 7 Ultimate x64 machines, and I have read about others seeing it on 32bit machines. Anyone have any suggestions? Also, this may be unrelated, but file or folder changes are not visible automatically.
A manual refresh of the folder/desktop is required to see what you have changed. In other words delete/create/rename a file or folder on the desktop or in an other folder and nothing appears to happen. A right-clickRefresh is required to see that windows did what you asked it to.