How to Disable Smart Move in Windows 10 When Renaming Folders

Jared

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So I'm probably not the only one who's annoyed by the Windows smart move taking an hour to just rename a folder that is full of data (something we do daily in data recovery). Apparently, this Smart Move popup that appears whenever you rename a folder full of files is creating symbolic links in the file system to all the old file locations. Obviously for data recovery purposes this is more of a problem than a help.

Here's how to disable it.

1. Install Link Shell Extension along with its dependancy install from here: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshel ... l#Download
2. From The Start Menu Run: LSEConfig
3. Uncheck the box "Smart Move" as seen here:
LinkShellExtensionConfig.jpg
 
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