Solution to Save as (not responding) for save as image

[pancharatna]

Earlier today I had a perplexing issue that all of a sudden I could not save images from the browser. This was the case with all browsers. When I tried to save an image to my computer the save as window at the top left said that it was not responding.

I looked online for solutions and tried all of the restarting clean booting et cetera without effect.

Then I went to where I had been storing saved images and found a temp file there that seemed to be an orphan. Once I removed that file everything was ok. It seemed that Windows created that file initially and somehow the process didn't complete but the file remained and would not allow the process to go again.

I hope this might help anyone who finds the same problem

[#2]

@pancharatna 

Here is (an)other solution to the "Save As" problem in Win 11 (22H2).

Deinstall OneDrive

Yep. Found this "Save As" hang issue using MS Office 2003 (tested in word, excel and powerpoint). Wasted a lot of time with Office repair/installation, since no other applications seemed prone to this problem.

I have to thank elevenforum for this suggestion (xandak specifically).

Hopefully someone will figure out how to use OneDrive alongside Office 2003. Cannot determine how this problem developed, unfortunately. 😞

[#3]

Was wondering what the issue was because it happend to me with a brand new laptop out of the box. So as clean as a windows install can get and yet after installing 4 different browsers it kept happening. 

Thanks so much for the solution.  @ebbrauer 

Can get really annoying trying all sorts of settings and different software to get it to work. All this time it was just a Windows problem that was present from a fresh and clean Windows 11 install on a brand new device. Please Windows take note and try to fix this. Luckily I'm only using OneDrive on my PC from work and don't need it on my private PC (for now). Hope by the time I need OneDrive on my private PC the issue is resolved. 

So anyone else with the same issue. Just remove OneDrive and that fixed it. Give it a try.  @ebbrauer 

[#4]

@pancharatna 

As per your suggestion I erased the temporary files created when trying to "save as", but unfortunately every time I try to use the "save as" command it creates a new temp file instead of saving the image that I want.  The same applies not only when saving from a browser but also images that are already on my pc.

I already cleared the cached images and files from my browser

Any suggestions?

[#5]

@pancharatna 
One more solid solution that work for me is to uninstall oneDrive if you have it in your any of the window maybe it's 10 or 11 just uninstall one drive from control panel then it will start working all the things properly

[#6]

Sometimes, applications may seem unresponsive while processing tasks. If it's a large file or if the app is doing intensive processing, give it a moment.

If your system is running low on memory or CPU, it might cause the application to hang. Close any unnecessary applications or tabs.

C Ensure that the application you are using is updated to the latest version. Sometimes bugs that cause freezing can be fixed in updates.