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Negitivefrags
2659 days ago
Open up "Resource Monitor" and go to the "Disk" tab. Under "Disk Activity" you can see all open file handles.
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kevin_thibedeau
2659 days ago
Certainly not a sensible solution like having a dialog button that gives you all the relevant information immediately and empowers you to solve the problem without a goose chase.
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coldtea
2659 days ago
Which are thousands...
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psykotic
2659 days ago
You need the Sysinternals utilities to make life tolerable:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/hand...
from the command line or Ctrl-F in
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/proc...
if you prefer a GUI. They do a brute-force search over the open handles in all processes, but it's effective.
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noisem4ker
2658 days ago
I prefer this utility:
http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/
It lets you see which process locked a file, and optionally remove the lock.
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