| Is there anyway to find exactly what program is apparently using a file you cant delete in windows? |
 mrgrotey |
All in the title really. Is there anyway to find exactly what program is apparently using a file you cant delete in windows? I find it incredibly annoying that sometimes you cant delete something because windows recons its still in use even though I've closed everything and know its not being used. If it knows it's in use just tell me the frickin program that's using it already!
Is there something out there that can tell me this?
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2/7/2010 12:28:34 PM (last edit: 2/7/2010 12:28:34 PM)
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| BishBashRoss2 |
I use a Ubuntu Boot disk when I have problems like this. Windows can be such a pain sometimes!
 Maxing and Relaxing
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2/7/2010 12:31:25 PM (last edit: 2/7/2010 12:31:25 PM)
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| nemo |
with this program you can find out which program uses resources (files):http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
but didnt windows 7 have this already built in when it tells you that it cannot delete some file?
cheers
nemo out
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2/7/2010 12:43:51 PM (last edit: 2/7/2010 12:43:51 PM)
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| TimTamFin |
[below]... might be better..
Rgds,
Timo
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2/7/2010 12:45:28 PM (last edit: 2/7/2010 12:47:53 PM)
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| Toen |
This?
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
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2/7/2010 12:46:02 PM (last edit: 2/7/2010 12:46:02 PM)
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| BishBashRoss2 |
That don't work with 64bit incase that affects anyone, tried it myself a while ago.
Maxing and Relaxing
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2/7/2010 12:59:51 PM (last edit: 2/7/2010 12:59:51 PM)
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| mrgrotey |
The download links for unlocker dont work for me neither main one or the mirror, only the portable version
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2/7/2010 4:09:12 PM (last edit: 2/7/2010 4:11:23 PM)
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| Toen |
Hey Grotey I found this online lists free programs to help with this sort of thing:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/deletelockedfiles.shtml
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2/7/2010 9:56:31 PM (last edit: 2/7/2010 9:56:46 PM)
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| donvella |
if your not bothered by what is actually using it, and just want to delete it, killbox works quite well.http://killbox.net/
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Vella
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2/8/2010 2:26:44 AM (last edit: 2/8/2010 2:26:44 AM)
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| mrgrotey |
After a hell of a lot of bother (eventually realising NOD32 was blocking the file no matter how I tried to get it (the link, getting horizon to d/l it and upload to divshare, email, send via msn, renaming the extension to a different format) I finally managed to get unlocker and it works brilliantly.
Thanks Toen :) ...and everyone else for their suggestions too :)
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2/8/2010 9:47:41 AM (last edit: 2/8/2010 9:47:41 AM)
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