As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it. Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live! Jeffrey Williams. Better yet - use a gMSA account to run the services and create proxy accounts with minimal permissions. Jeffrey Williams Problems are opportunities brilliantly disguised as insurmountable obstacles.
How to post questions to get better answers faster Managing Transaction Logs. You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Login to reply. After having added the user account in the directory security with full rights, it does the job. My approach to solving this problem is to run the utility Handle , by Mark Russinovich of Windows Sysinternals. You can find it here. This utility will show all the open handles on the system and which process is using them.
One of them may have a path to the folder you are trying to rename. Then I look at handles. It will appear in a section of handles belonging to the process that is keeping the handle to that folder open, and hence preventing it from being renamed.
It shows the pid of the offending process, which you can decide how to deal with, in case you need to terminate it. Trying to rename myfolder I forgot I had started a service running using pm2 a process monitor The output of Handle. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 5 years ago. Active 2 months ago.
Viewed 36k times. I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but I am going to ask it anyway. Supposing there is no other program or the cmd instance itself accessing the folder, you might need to ensure that cmd is properly elevated ; see also this article: The Windows Security Model If you had the appropriate privileges there would be no requirement to modify ownership.
The issue is therefore that the privileges under which you are operating are not sufficient. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Mofi Mofi Thanks a lot! Finally got my answer. Thanks a lot! Nandang Duryat February 20, am. Kenny January 9, pm. Henry Nana December 18, am. Soro Kolo September 18, pm.
Rando August 21, am. Dear Lord why are there like 92 billion OneDrive entries on the registry? Had to change each one by hand. Joe September 22, pm. Nnamdi J. July 7, am. Out of everything i've tried your guide was the one thing that worked! Instructions are well laid out. Thanks for saving me from this perennial problem!
Your email address will not be published. Skip to content Menu. Related article: How to change user account name in Windows. To Change the Name of the Profile folder: Important: Proceed and change the current account name if you have not already done so , before you continue below. Step 1. Enable the Hidden Administrator Account 1. Open Command Prompt as Administrator. To do that: a. Step 2. Change the User Profile folder path in Registry. Open Registry Editor. To do that: 1. Right click at the "ProfileList" key and select Export.
When done, click OK. Rename User Folder in Windows Explorer. Restart your computer. Step 4. Advanced Regedit Registry Finder 1. Step 5. Rebuild Search Index. Finally, follow the below procedure to rebuild the search index: 1. Click Rebuild. Click OK at the information message. If this article was useful for you, please consider supporting us by making a donation.
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