File Locksmith - Unlock file

[Symbai]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Many of the existing similar tools offer to unlock the file, rather than killing the target process. In many cases this is successful. I don't know how this technically works but it is possible and should be added here too.

Tool where this is possible: Unlocker IObit Unlocker

Scenario when this would be used?

A file is locked by process but can be unlocked without killing the process.

Supporting information

No response

[crutkas]

While possible, by doing this, that target app could be destabilized. That app made assumptions about how they want to interact with it.

[AndroidDeveloperLB]

Also LockHunter tool: https://lockhunter.com/download.htm

And, the most common operation is missing: Delete the file/folder I always use such tools to delete the file/folder .

[Symbai]

While possible, by doing this, that target app could be destabilized.

Could be.... yes. Still better than killing the app. However, in all cases where I successfully unlocked a file without killing a process, the target process just ran fine afterwards. Plus, its still a choice the end user has to take himself. If you prefer killing the process, you can still do.

[SekiBetu]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/

I usually use Process Explorer to find out which process is locking up my files

and windows Resource Monitor can also do the same thing