Open Symbai opened 1 year ago
While possible, by doing this, that target app could be destabilized. That app made assumptions about how they want to interact with it.
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 .
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.
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
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
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