File Unlocker Download And Run

You can choose to terminate and unlock the processes, or otherwise delete or move the file on the next reboot.

Portable version).

I definitely would recommend this to anyone for a no headache software.

The only thing is that it needs to be updated because recently it hasnt been responding properly on some files or programs.

Needs a delete to recycle bin option for mistakes, although, if you know what you are unlocking, you should know the risks as well.

Has remove on boot for those files locked in by running programs.

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But none of these softwares was able to find a handle which is using this file.

You need to move, rename or delete a file and as soon as you try to do that youre greeted by the following popup message.

Whenever thats the case, the fix is right around the corner: you close the offending application be it MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, Photoshop and so on then go back to the file and do whatever you want with it.

Again, if youre a seasoned Windows user, you will have no problem to figure it out soon enough.

The software is also freeware and it gets the job done just like the former one.

File Unlocker Download And Run

This small, yet great portable utility (no setup, just download and run) allows you to see all the currently active processes within your system, including the names of their owning accounts and a full list of handles ( files ) that the process selected in the top window has opened, including (if we switch it to DLL mode) the system DLLs: this basically means that we can fully understand whats going on, and which process is holding our files.

This will allow us to use it to easily fix most unwanted file locks in a matter of seconds: we just have to search for the locked file, retrieve the process which is keeping the handle and close (or kill) it accordingly.

In order to achieve such surgical result we need to get our hands to another great Sysinternals utility that goes by the name of Handle.

This could make it less intuitive when we need to investigate our system, yet it has extremely powerful tools when it comes to fix the issues we found.

Open the output.txt file with your favourite text editor and search for a row containing your locked file name.

Once you find it, look for the HEX number to the left and write it down: this is the ID of the handle you need to close.

Right after that, go up through the file until you reach the parent row, which contains the informations about the process which is holding that handle.

Again, look for the small HEX number to the left and write it down: this is the ID of the process youll need to use in the following step.

As a side note: SYSTEM process ID is usually 4, although it could vary in the future.

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The software is also freeware (bloatware offers) and it does nothing more, nothing less than the former one, thus being just as bad.

Unlike most of their software, IObit Unlocker is completely free from bloatware offers, and there are no pro version nor other methods used, where they ask you for money nor do they ask you to sign up for anything.

Handles get reused by Windows, so if you close handle H belonging to app A, theres a risk that H may be reassigned to some other app B.

Since A doesnt know that H was closed (because nobody told it), if it decides to manipulate whatever object H is now referring to, it will be manipulating an object belonging to B, most likely corrupting it.

Should A now decide to close H (which is no longer As handle to close, but again: A doesnt know this), the problem of possible reassignment and data corruption repeats itself.

This can go on indefinitely, corrupting huge amounts of data.

Though the above described scenario may not be very likely to occur, it is indeed a real possibility.

Therefore, the best way to close a handle is either to (a) make the app that opened it close it or (b) shut down your PC.

As the process involved is System, trying to close it, likely cant succeed, or wouldnt end well anyway.