just kill it

Probably the indexing service, it's always the indexing service.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it. I was trying to diagnose a prod server crashing this very Wednesday and seeing the lines of svchost.exe is so fucking maddening... I'm glad ProcessExplorer was there to give some useful fucking info, at least.

Windows won't let you rename a file that's being used either.

It turns out you can kind of get the same functionality on Windows if you rename the open file and place the new one with the original name, but it's a bit of a hack.

Only if you don't have OneDrive working. In that case, you have to wait for it to sync or it won't go through.

Anytime I have an issue at work where I can't change or delete a file, it's a 50/50 split between Excel and OneDrive being the cause

the mpv player does that too for the cache folder. It's configurable and documented

Yes. On Linux/Unix you don't delete the file, you just delete it's name, which is merely a link to the actual file. That's also the reason why the syscalls name is actually unlink and not delete. As soon as there's nothing pointing to a file anymore, it is deleted.

As long as a process holds a file handle, there's still a reference to said file, so it won't be deleted. That saved me once, when I accidentally deleted a file I wanted to keep: As there still was some process keeping it alive, I could just go to /proc/[process id]/fd/[file descriptor id] and copy it to a safe location.

I did that once on my Macbook Air a while ago by mistake. The system's completely fucked and I had to reinstall it.

Missed the flag --no-preserve-root or you could just add a wildcard.

not including PowerToys inside basic package is a fucking choice. Win11 is literally unusable without it in many aspects.

Why would they not include these into base kit Windows is beyond me.

Some of them felt a bit buggy when I last time used Windows, maybe they aren't fully ready to ship (like Samsung's Good Lock apps?). And most features didn't do quite what I imagined it to do, but that's probably a "me problem".

I feel like it's a testing ground for new features for them, but not sure why some aren't yet integrated. Best guess: the PowerToys team has less red tape and checks to go through than the Windows team to allow for faster iteration, but that means that integrating the features wouldn't be just the click of a button since they'd have to adapt it to fit the Windows style. But this is just a wild guess.

Because they want to include things with ads now - i.e. the ad-supported Outlook in the place of Mail.

I used to find it had something to do with the explorer thumbnailer finishing up but sort of not letting go. It would happen if I had pictures or videos on the USB drive, and if I got the error I could go to another folder like my documents, drag a picture into another folder, go look at the pretty new thumbnail, then I could remove the USB drive because the thumbnailer was 'parked' back on the C drive. Sounds like I'm making it up but I swear it worked.

Shouldn't that happen automatically if the drive is identified as removable? And the real solution should be to tell the OS that it's removable?

And if you move the drive between operating systems you're very limited in what filesystems you can use because Windows is very limited in what filesystems it can use. So you can't just pick a more robust filesystem.

I like Notepad++. It can handle anything you throw at it.

I switched to Linux (Fedora with KDE) and I like KWrite for similar reasons.

I once deleted /dev/urandom. I didn't want uncertainty in my life.

Well, I was on for a surprise.

How? I could've sworn it wasn't even a "real" file. I thought the file system just had special rules for interacting with that name.