Finding user of a file
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I think I have asked this here before, but that was in 2006 and I erased all the memories over the New Years weekend. :doh: I am looking for a tool or tools that can help me determine by which process a file is being used when I get the common Access Denied error. Yesterday I killed processes left and right trying to be able to delete a file and eventually broke down and restarted.
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I think I have asked this here before, but that was in 2006 and I erased all the memories over the New Years weekend. :doh: I am looking for a tool or tools that can help me determine by which process a file is being used when I get the common Access Denied error. Yesterday I killed processes left and right trying to be able to delete a file and eventually broke down and restarted.
SysInternals Process Explorer[^]
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SysInternals Process Explorer[^]
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Linkify!|Fold With Us!Thanks peterchen, that looks like it will help a lot. I've been haunted by this issue for a while now, but it always goes away before I do anything about it :zzz:
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I think I have asked this here before, but that was in 2006 and I erased all the memories over the New Years weekend. :doh: I am looking for a tool or tools that can help me determine by which process a file is being used when I get the common Access Denied error. Yesterday I killed processes left and right trying to be able to delete a file and eventually broke down and restarted.
I use "WhoLockMe": http://www.dr-hoiby.com/WhoLockMe/[^]
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I think I have asked this here before, but that was in 2006 and I erased all the memories over the New Years weekend. :doh: I am looking for a tool or tools that can help me determine by which process a file is being used when I get the common Access Denied error. Yesterday I killed processes left and right trying to be able to delete a file and eventually broke down and restarted.
This is a very small program that only shows which process is locking a file. It installs into explorer's context menu. So you can right click a file and do "Who Lock Me?" and you will get a small dialog with the results. http://www.dr-hoiby.com/WhoLockMe/[^] Process Explorer from SysInternals can also do it, but I find it a bit overkill for this functionality
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This is a very small program that only shows which process is locking a file. It installs into explorer's context menu. So you can right click a file and do "Who Lock Me?" and you will get a small dialog with the results. http://www.dr-hoiby.com/WhoLockMe/[^] Process Explorer from SysInternals can also do it, but I find it a bit overkill for this functionality
Just what I needed. I'm glad I got Process Explorer, but this is the bomb!
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I think I have asked this here before, but that was in 2006 and I erased all the memories over the New Years weekend. :doh: I am looking for a tool or tools that can help me determine by which process a file is being used when I get the common Access Denied error. Yesterday I killed processes left and right trying to be able to delete a file and eventually broke down and restarted.
Also, from Sysinternals. Handle 3.20 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/Handle.mspx Process Explorer is the GUI verison of this, I find it easier to use
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