🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi all,

A few of you may remember replying to me that you could not reproduce the
bug I set out below. It has plagued me for almost a year. And I blamed
Microsoft for the fault because the Explorer shell kept holding file handles
open, stopping me from being able to delete empty directories in certain
circumstances.

After going through and systematically testing for the bug while installing
one application at a time I have isolated the bug to a third-party
sub-application called "Corel Versions". This can be installed as part of
CorelDraw 9. If I uninstall this part of CorelDraw 9 I can at last delete
empty directories at will.

This is the most devious bug I have ever come across. And it was not
Microsoft's fault (so my previous comments were totally misguided).

Regards,
Adam

A while ago I wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There is a very annoying bug in Windows NT 4 and 2000 that has never been
> fixed (and please don't try and tell me it is a "feature" ;-).
>
> When a file within a directory has been opened and then deleted it usually
> impossible to delete the parent directory, even if the files within that
> directory are subsequently deleted.
>
> The workaround is to kill explorer.exe and then restart it, thereby
> destroying an otherwise stable GUI (or, alternatively, logging out then in
> again).
>
> So there's a relatively significant bug in NT closing previously opened
> files. However I have noticed Windows 2000 sometimes asks whether it may
> force files to close (e.g. when formatting a partition). If a utility
> existed to allowed "open" files to be closed I would be able to keep
running
> Windows 2000 without having to continually log out or kill explorer.
>
> So does anyone in the world know of a more palatable work around? (Well
> Microsoft could fix the bug--but is pretty obvious they don't care. In
fact
> it was one of the reasons I was looking forward to being able to use
Windows
> 2000).
>
> Regards,
> Adam Warner