How to find out what processes have folder or file locked?

Question

How do you go about querying running processes to find out what folders or files they have locked? (i.e. you go to eject a drive and you\'re told that it can\'t be ejected becau

Answer 1

LockHunter is a great context menu tool for Windows.

Answer 2

One of the first things I put on my Windows dev machines is WhoUses. It's nice because it's open source too.

Answer 3

http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/ (freeware) has a special UI for exactly this situation.

Answer 4

Process Explorer will show you this. Ctrl-F will let you search for a file and list the process(es) that have that file open/locked. You can then close that handle using Process Explorer.

There's also a command line utility called oh.exe available for download. See here for more details