Error MSB3027: Could not copy “C:\pagefile.sys” to “bin\roslyn\pagefile.sys”. Exceeded retry count of 10. Failed

Question

I am consistently getting this error with VS 2013:

Could not copy \"C:\\pagefile.sys\" to \"bin\\roslyn\\pagefile.sys\". Exceeded retry count of 10.

Answer 1

I removed these packages from nuget package manager since I do not use them:

• Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform

• Microsoft.Net.Compilers

Now everything works.

Answer 2

Simply search for the process that has a handle on pagefile.sys using Sysinternals Process Explorer and kill it.