I've been using W2K Pro for well over a year and love it. However there's a REALLY annoying problem which has cropped up every time I've installed the OS (which is few).
The problem happens in Windows Explorer. If I edit, rename, delete, copy etc files within a folder, and then try to delete that folder I get a "There has been a sharing violation" error due to one of the files still being in use.
This happens maybe 80-90% of the time. I can find no real pattern to the behaviour. The ONLY ways around it are either to reboot, or to kill the Explorer.exe process and restart a new one. Then it deletes the folder just fine. It's almost as if Explorer is holding onto whatever file I've just been messing with and not letting it go.
I always log in as Administrator and I can see no settings that affect the problem. File system is all FAT32. I'm currently on Service Pack 2, but this problem has always been there right from when I first bought W2K.
There has got to be a reason for this. Help!
The problem happens in Windows Explorer. If I edit, rename, delete, copy etc files within a folder, and then try to delete that folder I get a "There has been a sharing violation" error due to one of the files still being in use.
This happens maybe 80-90% of the time. I can find no real pattern to the behaviour. The ONLY ways around it are either to reboot, or to kill the Explorer.exe process and restart a new one. Then it deletes the folder just fine. It's almost as if Explorer is holding onto whatever file I've just been messing with and not letting it go.
I always log in as Administrator and I can see no settings that affect the problem. File system is all FAT32. I'm currently on Service Pack 2, but this problem has always been there right from when I first bought W2K.
There has got to be a reason for this. Help!
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