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Cant delete or rename explorer.exe

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lee - 24 Mar 2010 à 16:30
 A person - 7 Mar 2017 à 14:22
Im trying to delete my iexplorer.exe & explorer.exe, or rename it, & it wont let me do either, stating error deleting key, cannot delete ieplorer.exe, error while deleting key, please help me sort this problem out

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Ambucias Posts 47312 Registration date Monday 1 February 2010 Status Moderator Last seen 28 March 2026 11,166
24 Mar 2010 à 16:45
Hello,

I must admit, at first your issue surprised me, for I asked myself: "Why on earth would want to delete explorer.exe?". I guess that I will stay on my appetite.

I suggest that the reason you cannot delete or rename is because explorer.exe is in process, so you must first end it as a process. If you are using Windows XP, you do alt+ctrl+del to open the task manager, click on the processes tab, locate Explorer.exe and terminate it.

Then you can proceed doing whatever you wish with the file.

Regards
A person
7 Mar 2017 à 14:22
The reason you can't modify File Explorer is because it needs to be open to access the folder it's in. If you want a copy with a different name, copy it to another folder and rename it.
Why would you want to delete it? It's an important program.

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