Did you ever get a message like “Cannot delete File / Folder: It is being used by another person or program” or similar messages when you were trying to delete a file or folder ? This happened to me often when I finished viewing a movie file and decided to delete it but could not because Windows was still thinking this movie was in use. Unlocker is the solution to this weird behavior.
Unlocker is freeware and adds a right-click menu entry called Unlocker after installation. If you encounter a file or folder that can’t be deleted use unlocker to either kill the process or unlock the file so that the deletion can commence.
I know that I already wrote about Unlocker before but a new version was released two days ago which corrects some bugs and adds another language to the program. Here is the complete changelog:
- New language: Belarusian thanks to Aleg Azarousky
- New feature: Access to Delete / Rename / Move options from command line
- Improved behavior: Power users do not need rights to modify registry anymore to run Unlocker as long as Unlocker was installed by an administrator on the machine
- Fixed bug: Renaming now works again.
- Fixed bug: Renaming and Moving on boot now work again.
Other error messages where Unlocker is able to help with.
- Cannot delete file: Access is denied
- There has been a sharing violation.
- The source or destination file may be in use.
- The file is in use by another program or user.
- Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.
You see, it might be a good idea to install the program and have it at hand because those errors seem to happen frequently on Windows.
Related posts:
File And Folder UnlockerHow to delete “cannot delete files”
Remove old dll files from your system
Can’t delete virus ? Try Killbox
The Only Batch File Renamer You Ever Need
7 Responses to “Unlocker 1.8.4. available”
Trackbacks/Pingbacks
-
[...] Unlocker 1.8.4. available [...]
-
[...] (review, developer) – Wer kennt die Meldung nicht: Windows kann die Datei nicht löschen weil sie noch in [...]
-
[...] （测评, 开发者）- [...]
-
[...] software programs that gets installed on many computer systems is the excellent Unlocker program. Unlocker integrates itself into the Windows right-click context menu. It can be used to unlock files and [...]
-
[...] Unlocker [via gHacks] can help you solve the problem by releasing the file or folder from certain process’s [...]
A life saver!
Cool.. I get this problem all the time. Its a right pain in the Butt! .. Cheers for the link :)