Kill currently used, locked, busy files


Unlocker: kill currently used, locked, busy filesI believe once in a while you might came across this annoying message from Windows as you are trying to delete, move or rename a file. To make thing worse, even if you have shut down the process, the problem still persists and the blame should be on the DLL files or related files that are loaded to the active file. You might want to kill it manually but how do you know which one is the culprit?

Unlocker uses few methods to delete locked files, including attempting to close the handle, killing the process holding the file open, unloading the DLL that may have open the file handle etc. There are few more softwares that can perform the same task as Unlocker but as this particular software integrates with Windows Explorer, it can be simply accessed with a single right click on the filename within Explorer and window like in the following picture will popup.

Unlocker: kill currently used, locked, busy files

If you have good experience with softwares other than Unlocker and would like to share it with readers here you are most welcomed to do so. So no more wrath when you get stuck with this problem (:

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  1. impax says on April 1, 2007 at 8:04 am

    i like your info here, bro.
    keep up.

    http://born2bjutawan.blogspot.com

  2. admin says on April 1, 2007 at 3:12 pm

    Thanks impax..please come again (:

  3. DjFlush says on April 2, 2007 at 5:18 pm

    Very Helpful Eches :D Bookmarked

    I have faced this stupid problem many times :”>

  4. Ahmad Uzair says on April 3, 2007 at 12:59 pm

    i seldom had a problem with this.Thanks eches.

  5. admin says on April 4, 2007 at 1:59 pm

    No problemo

  6. izali says on April 5, 2007 at 6:00 am

    salam eches,

    im new in making money online, and i found website (shareapix.com) that offer money when sharing picture. its also offered to put our adsense code in our photo album in their website.

    since im new, im not not so sure whether the adsense code is ours or not, could u pls clarify on this….

    the mainpage is (with my id – i just joined) http://www.shareapic.net/

    my sample photo album:
    http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?gid=44784

    (this is my photo album in this website, and has adsense code, so how to know the code is mine or not)

    ur comment will be appreciated…

    tqvm

    regards
    izali

  7. admin says on April 5, 2007 at 10:28 am

    I’m not entirely sure about that but you can compare your pub-id with the id that appear on the page (try to hover on “feedback – ads by google”).

  8. Madhur Kapoor says on April 11, 2007 at 12:24 pm
  9. Adam says on April 13, 2007 at 11:37 am

    Just wondering. Is this software free.

  10. admin says on April 13, 2007 at 11:43 am

    yup it is

  11. abhishekbhatnagar says on April 15, 2007 at 10:46 pm

    I have been using this small app for a long time its really…i think u shld also let the readers know how it works on windows vista also…just a suggestion from my side.

  12. Jason says on May 9, 2007 at 4:00 am

    Two other tips: check permissions of the file and folder, run spybot and check if it loads at startup and click off the file

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  14. Garry Conn says on May 29, 2007 at 10:16 am

    Hey man… where did you go?

  15. aman says on May 31, 2007 at 6:53 am

    woit…biler nak update.. :D

  16. fariezul says on June 25, 2007 at 9:20 am

    hello dude. long time no see huh.
    accidently found your blog. hahaha..
    what a small world.

  17. Spanky says on July 10, 2007 at 9:21 am

    Sweet. I’ve been looking for something like this. You’re right, it’s a very annoying error and now I’ll finally have a solution

  18. narendra.s,v says on July 18, 2007 at 12:48 am

    interesting :D thanks a lot =p~

  19. admin says on July 18, 2007 at 1:04 am

    :d

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