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Right click the handle in the bottom window and select “Close Handle”. When selected, the handle will be highlighted in the bottom window.ĥ. Select the first handle in the search result window. Process Explorer shows you the process that has handles to your file and thus blocks it.Ĥ. Enter the name of the file you would like to unlock and hit “Search”. Click Find –> Find Handle or DLL… or hit Ctrl-Fģ. Open procexp.exe as an administrator from your disk or directly from. In my opinion this is a tool of such high importance that you should have it, know how to use it and take it EVERYWHERE you go! 🙂ġ.

Sysinternals Process Explorer (procexp) can fill the gap. Could be that I am working on a customer system or I don’t have the necessary rights. However, the problem is that very often in the crucial moment, the tool was not available. The result is this annoying window:įor a long time, I was a huge fan of unlocking tools such as Unlocker or Lockhunter. Let’s suppose you would like to edit a file that is locked by another process. I guess everybody has experienced (and hates) the locked-file-problem. Recently, I stumbled over a very simple yet effective trick.

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