Windows 10: Windows 10 hangs when I create or rename a folder

If I right click on my desktop and go to new my computer freezes up for about 30 seconds. The box goes away and nothing happens. This makes it impossible to create a new folder on my desktop. Something I have been doing for many years. Before you suggest it is something wrong with my specific computer please be aware that tens of thousands of people that are running Windows 10 are having the same issue. Google it. Also all of my friends using Windows 10 are experiencing this as well. Do you plan on providing a update to fix this failure in the near future?

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Desktopini created instead of a folder renaming

Every time I try to rename a folder on my PC (Windows 10 Pro), instead of renaming the file, it creates a desktop.ini folder, and inside of it is the following information

[.ShellClassInfo]

LocalizedResourceName=

After LocalizedResourceName= is the name of the folder that I renamed it to. So if it was Folder1 and I rename it to Folder2, that file will say:

[.ShellClassInfo]

LocalizedResourceName=Folder2

... but the actual foldername will still be Folder1

Searching the Internet lists a bunch of random suggestions, none of which work. Anyone know why this happens? I'm pretty close to abandoning File Explorer, as it seems to be the cause of this issue.

 

Windows 10 hangs when I create or rename a folder

Darn, I got my hopes up. But I'm running an individual instance of Windows 10 Pro/64 bit, with no Windows Server involvement. When I tried to download and install kb3206632, I was informed that it wasn't applicable to my machine. That didn't surprise
me too much; that update came out mid-December and I've gotten and applied all updates (partly because I don't have a choice), and I still have this problem.

Not ten minutes ago, in fact, I created a new folder, and tried to rename it. Sometimes I have better luck opening the new folder's properties in the context (right-click) menu and renaming the folder in that pane, but not this time. Same 60-second or
so hang. Using the more straightforward methods, either right-click > "Rename" or simply selecting the folder's name in the window and clicking again to select the text of the folder name to change it always result in the hang.

Maybe they've got it fixed on the Windows Server side, but not for standalone Windows 10 Pro.

 

Unable to create a new folder or rename a folder

Hi Edver,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft community.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. I'll certainly help you with this.

I would like to let you know that you may not be able to rename or add a new folder from Quick access. It will allow you to open the folders that are frequently used, recently viewed files or the files/folders that are added to
Quick access.

If you are unable to create or rename files/folders in other folders as well, then I would suggest you to run a SFC scan.

System File checker (SFC) scan is done to check if there are any corrupted system files that could be causing this issue. Kindly follow the below given steps:

• Press Windows key + X, select
  Command prompt (Admin) to bring up elevated Command prompt.
• In Command prompt type sfc /scannow and press enter.
• Restart the computer.

Hope this will help you. Keep us posted with the status of the issue to assist you further.

Thank you.