December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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23.13 Resolving Locking Problems with Unlocker
You’re diligently working away at your development or testing tasks, when all of a sudden you get an annoying dialog with an error along the lines of “Cannot delete Folder: It is being used by another person or program.” Unfortunately, you have no idea what process might have a lock on this particular object. You could fire up Process Explorer or Filemon (both discussed in Chapter 15), but neither of those quickly points out the offending culprit, so you’ll have to spend a few minutes trying to figure out which process has nabbed the file you need. (Or, more likely, closing apps and ending processes in a time-wasting game of elimination until you can delete the directory.)
Cedrick Collomb’s Unlocker can help you out of this jam. Unlocker installs itself in your System Tray and is available via a right-click context menu.
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Tool | Unlocker |
Version covered | 1.8.3 |
Home page | |
Power Tools page | |
Summary | Helps you quickly find which processes are locking files of interest, and kill those processes if needed |
License type | Freeware |
Online resources | FAQ |
Related tools in this book | Process Explorer, Filemon |
Getting Started
Unlocker runs on any 32-bit Windows version: 2000/XP/Server 2003.
Unlocker is available as an executable file download. Install it, and you’ll have a new icon ...
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