Furious RAGEEEEE - probable glen

[nath]

E:\>del ff3.exe
E:\ff3.exe
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Is there any way to find out what the *****~%!"£&%* is using this file? My dad sent me some solid works (3d cad software) file that was supposed be a simple viewer with the work he'd been doing. Turns out it was the wrong format, I tried renaming it to exe to see if that's all it needed (clutching at straws I know) but it didn't work. "Bugger, I'll resend" he says. I try to delete and get that. I'd rather not reboot my pc to sort this, is there no other way to get rid of this @~^@&@$%&** file?

TIA :\

 

[Shovel]

Try WhoLockMe. Never used it, though have been meaning to install it for yonks since it's been sitting on my hard disk for a year. Looks like it will do the job.

 

[nath]

My first born will be called Shovel. Or Ben, whatever takes my fancy nearer the time.

It's as I thought, Explorer has locked it up (about 10 times over). It seems a little absurd that it's explorer that has locked it and won't let me delete it for no reason whatsoever. Gah, Windows angers the piss out of me.

Thanks though shov

 

[Shovel]

No probs. On the grounds that it does actually work, I may well install it myself now

I'd also suggest that Ben would be less inclined to get beaten up at school than Shovel (unless Shovel grows up to be built like a brick shithouse, in which case he'd do alright).

 

[nath]

Anyone lays a hand on my little shovel and I'll kick the shit out of them and/or their parents!!!!!!1

Anyhoo, thanks again

 

[Shovel]

Surely he'd be a Trowel?



*Sorry, I know this is getting far too "General forum" for [Hard|Soft]ware, but c'mon, that was irresistible.

 

[wyrd_fish]

i find that explorer does all kinds of really queer things after a few days uptime

and also that booting ino safe mode allows you to delete all sorts, good for geting rid of spyware etc.

 

[Mazling]

I've had this problem on win2k also: deleting a file via ANY gui-based program will result in a "file in use" error... as well as having a process stuck in the background. Killing the process and trying again ends up the same way. Direct ye mice to the command prompt and delete it via that.