If we don't want to bother about what's happening to our system and just want to release that damn file we can think about trying to use Unlocker, a freeware application made by Cedrick Collomb that could automatically fix your issue. Whenever this happens, you're going to equip yourself with a few freeware tools that might really help you fixing your issue for good. However there is always a small chance that, after you spent a reasonable amount of time checking and/or temporarily shutting down your resident software, you would still have absolutely no idea of what process is actually keeping that file open. Again, if you're a seasoned Windows user, you will have no problem to figure it out soon enough. What to do when there are no active applications that seems to be locking that file? As soon as you are sure about it you can focus your attention to other Windows processes, such as some active services that could have it open: Antivirus software, Database services, Source Control Managers, Software Optimizers, Backup Tools, Firewall/security systems and so on. Whenever that's 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. If you're an experienced Windows user you most certainly know that, when you see something like this, it usually means that there is a running application which still has that file opened in an exclusive mode - thus locking it from any IO write operations: no rename, no move and certainly no delete. The action cannot be completed because the file is open in SYSTEM. The action can’t be completed because the file is open in another program. You need to move, rename or delete a file and - as soon as you try to do that - you're greeted by the following popup message:įile in Use. The scenario we're about to introduce is an unbeatable classic for anyone working with Windows.
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