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Windows Explorer Stuck on Cancelling

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Mar 15, 202663163 views
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Does this ever happen to you? When try to copy a file and suddenly you want to cancel it or in my case I was try to write it over a network drive and I lost the connection. But regardless what's the reason this annoying box just doesn't go away. Anyone know why this is happening? or How I can preve…

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Fix for: Windows Explorer Stuck on Cancelling

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Not sure why it happens, but I get it too. To get rid of this annoying dialog you need to kill explorer and restart it: from Task Manager, Processes tab, find explorer.exe and choose "End Process" still in Task Manager, select File → New Task → type…

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