Unable to delete, move, or perform any action on a file because it is locked by a process? Find out which process is locking a file in Windows 11/10 using various methods discussed in this article.

Open Task Manager Locate the process Right-click on it and select Open file location Where does it take you? The System32 folder – Then its likey an OS process If it is not situated in the Windows ...

* I am aware of the various task libraries out there. For internal reasons, I need my own task, even if already out there. I've written a simple custom msbuild task to concatenate some text files to ...

To avert the problems associated with the file locking mechanism, POSIX introduced record locking via the fcntl() syscall (the pre-POSIX lockf() and flock() syscalls provide the same functionality but ...

There are some media files I wish to shift around, but some troublesome application has ahold of them even after a fresh boot. I bet I could move them from a Safe-Mode boot, but I would like to know ...

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...