Can’t delete, copy, cut or paste files in Windows 10 — Creators Update

I never had problems with Win10 before, but today suddenly I just can’t delete/copy/cut/paste files on the File Explorer.

I can delete/copy/paste/cut text on Google Chrome for example, but the problem seems to remain only on the File Explorer with both text and files.

It doesn’t matters if i do it with Keyboard shortcuts or with «e.g. Right Click > Copy», nothing happens.

I have the Creators Update version.

Additionally, Microsoft Edge is not working, once I try to open it, just closes itself after a few seconds without even opening the homepage.

As everybody I use these functions very frequently. I would really appreciate any help and possible solution.

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You might be experiencing this issue because of corrupted system files. To diagnose and fix this problem, we suggest that you use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files. This scans for corruptions in Windows system files and restores corrupted files.

Let’s also download and run the File troubleshooter. This troubleshooter finds and fixes Windows file and folder problems.

To resolve the issue with opening Edge, we recommend that you follow the troubleshooting steps provided by Tiero Chi in the following thread: How to recover Microsoft Edge if it fails to launch.

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Sadly, it didn’t worked. I followed the steps carefully, but the problem remains.

1. SFC, says that there is not any problem, I executed it 4 times.

2. File Troubleshooter detected some errors with the Recycle Bin but, after rebooting the PC nothing have changed.

Reading the description of that link, I noticed that in the «What It Fixes» section, they mention this:

• When you copy, move, rename, or delete a file on a network share, you receive the following error message: «There is a network or file permission error. The network connection may be lost» or «The folder does not exist. The file may have been moved or deleted. Do you want to create it?»

But I don’t receive any error message, simply nothing happens.

3. I’m not able to delete any file so. hahaha, I just can’t do the first suggestion. I did what it says in 2nd, but it has not changed anything yet.

Thank you so much for your help, If you could find any other solution it would be really nice. If there is nothing else that I can do, I think I probably should reinstall Win10.

How to prevent a file being copied or cut in windows file system?

I want that an exe file can’t be copied or cut from the Windows file system to paste somewhere.

The exe is made in C#. which must have to be in only one PC.

I have worked with FileSystemWatcher, NSIS, Clipboard. but for all I need to detect whether that file is being copied.

I also have seen ‘Prevent'(http www free-download-blog.com disable-cut-paste-copy-delete-rename-functions-using-prevent ), but I need to prevent only that particular exe from being copied or cut.

Any pointer or idea will help.

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If you need the exe to be executable, you need to permit loading it into memory. As soon as you do, anyone can read it to memory using ReadFile and then write to an arbitrary location using WriteFile. No shell-detectable copying involved.

As others have suggested you won’t be able to disable the copy/cut behaviour so easily.
An alternative would be to disable the execution of the copied versions.
In your executable you could check many things like :

• The path of the present executable is explicitly your_path
• The name of the machine and user is the one you authorise

You could even prevent the file of being executed more than once using Windows register entries (if already 1 don’t launch). It won’t be perfect since any experimented user could tweak that out, assuming they are seeking for that. But depending on your users profile it might be sufficient.

How to open CUT files

Did your computer fail to open a CUT file? We explain what CUT files are and recommend software that we know can open or convert your CUT files.

What is a CUT file?

The CUT file extension indicates to your device which app can open the file. However, different programs may use the CUT file type for different types of data.

While we do not yet describe the CUT file format and its common uses, we do know which programs are known to open these files, as we receive dozens of suggestions from users like yourself every day about specific file types and which programs they use to open them.

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Various CUT openers

These apps are known to open certain types of CUT files. Since many different programs may use CUT files for different purposes, you may need to try a few of the apps to open your specific CUT file.

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How to copy/cut a file (not the contents) to the clipboard in Windows on the command line?

Is there a way to copy (or cut) a file to the Windows clipboard from the command line?

In particular with a batch script. I know how to copy the contents to the clipboard ( type file | clip ), but this is not the case. I want to have the whole file as I would press Ctrl + C in Windows Explorer.

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OK, it seems the easiest way was to create a small C# tool that takes arguments and stores them in the clipboard:

2017 edit: Here’s a github repo with both source and binary.

This would place the contents of the file into the clipboard (accomplished by clip.exe).

To get the actual file, you’ll probably have to resort to some other programming language, like VBScript or PowerShell to access Windows API’s. I’m not entirely certain what Explorer puts into the clipboard when you CTRL+C a file. I suspect it uses the notification system to do something more intelligent than put the path to the file there. Depending on the context of the CTRL+V, you’ll get something (Explorer, Word) or nothing (Notepad).

I’ve forever wanted this to use in Emacs, so, inspired by this question, an answer here, and a goodly amount of NIH syndrome, I’ve written a C version available at

picellif also handles wildcards (it’s not clear to me if rostok’s C# version does or not).

Cancelled cut and paste, what happens?

I cut and paste an 80GB worth of files and folders. At about 80% I cancelled it. Are some of the files deleted and gone forever? Does the files that were successfully transferred gets deleted? If yes, can I still recover them?

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When you cut and paste the data, the data transfer proceeds one file by one from the location of transfer to the other location. Until the file transfer is completed, the files are not deleted from the original location(from where the files were cut). If by chance the transfer is interrupted the files which have not transferred yet will remain in the original location and you can again proceed with your transfer.

There is a very small chance of losing data if the transfer is interrupted by a power failure or a system hang. In my case I’ve never lost data when cutting and pasting, no matter the size.

No file should be lost. Information that was copied will remain copied, and information that was not copied will remain where it was.

Hitting ‘cancel’ on a file transfer, using the built-in windows move, ends up deleting the file that’s been copied over. If Windows had deleted the source file by then too (in my case, it deletes the file, then tells me it’s unable to read that file, and gives me option to cancel etc), then you lose the file entirely. time to get out Recuva etc. then.

Critical because. the file just vanishes. It doesn’t accept your cancel request, it instead obliterates the file that it had successfully copied over, that after deleting the source file as well. How cool is that? I wonder how many potentially important files I’ve lost before I caught on to this bug last year.

Can someone confirm if this bug still exists in Win10?

Better to not use the built in Move. Try something like Ultracopier instead, which I’ve confirmed that under the same circumstance doesn’t delete the copied file if you hit cancel.