Posted by fred-bloggs on 11/17/61 11:47

Cerulean <Spamming@NOTallowed.com> wrote in
news:p0p862p7m32jirpjhk5rciboi48f69qeet@4ax.com:

> On Tue, 09 May 2006 15:19:06 -0500, Jyeshta <whatever@twixtntween.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 07 May 2006 21:03:23 -0400, Cerulean <Spamming@NOTallowed.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>I have an older computer (PIII, 650 MHz, 128 SDRAM). I'm having
>>>difficulty editing the ID3 tags and renaming files, etc., because
>>>Windows 2000 doesn't let go. I was told in an MS group that the
>>>group would know of a workaround. Apparently there is a way to let
>>>the OS let go of the files so one work with them. Does anyone know
>>>the solution? It gets very annoying when one can't edit one's files
>>>properly.
>>>
>>>TIA.
>>
>>Here's an excerpt from a post Q&A answered by fred-bloggs:
>>
>><Begin quote>
>>
>>> Anyone else having any problems with explorer.exe having to shut
>>> down while running WinMX 3.53?
>>> I have searched for viruses, spyware, ran checkdisk, defragged, and
>>> even repaired my XP Pro software (several times, in fact) only to
>>> have Windows Explorer cease to operate while using WinMX. Then it's
>>> off to reboot and start over.
>>> Anyone have any suggestions as to what else I may try?
>>> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>>> Tellurian
>>
>>
>>Are you downloading avis? Explorer gets hung up on incomplete or
>>corrupted avis. This can be prevented by unloading the snooping dll.
>
> Hi, and thank you for all the responses.
>
> The posts all seem to be talking about video files and it's not video
> files I'm having difficulty editing.
>
> I tried this fix but it didn't work. When I searched for the dll
> file, it's not one I have. I even unhid all the files first. But it
> doesn't show up. However, it's exactly the kind of fix I that would
> seem to work. Does anyone have any idea what else could be happening
> here?
>
> One poster in a Windows 2000 group said it was probably my old
> computer that is causing this. I don't know if that is true or not,
> but they said that this seems to happen when system don't have enough
> power for the OS (?). I don't know if that's the case. However, I'm
> still stuck.
>
> When I tried another ID3 tag editor, the changes wouldn't be made and
> it gave a message such as "file in use" (which it wasn't).
>
> I'm hoping someone might know of a solution that works. It's such a
> drag to work with my MP3s. I'm transferring my cassette audio book
> collections to MP3s, but I have to endlessly fiddle before I can add
> the tag information. Also, quite often I can't even rename the file.
> But that's not as difficult to overcome as I just have to select
> another and play it and that often releases the OSs hold over the MP3
> I'm trying to rename.
>

Download Process Explorer
http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessExplorerNt.zip

Set the View in the Lower Pane to handles and do a Find for the name of
the locked file. The PID will tell you which process is accessing it.


--
fred

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