Find out what program is using a certain file.

[thealmightyone]

I have a file which I can never delete, even in Safe Mode, as it is being used by a program.

Is there a utility out there which will tell me what program is using it, so I can turn it off and delete the file?

 

[magicman]

I use a free program called Unlocker. It displays the process(s) that are locking a file, and give you the option to either kill the process or remove the association whilst keeping the process active.

 

[thealmightyone]

How annoying. Unlocker says there's nothing using the file, which I agree with, but I still can't delete it.

 

[apj101]

filemon
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html
then there is reg mon

 

[magicman]

How annoying. Unlocker says there's nothing using the file, which I agree with, but I still can't delete it.

Not even using the delete feature within Unlocker? If it says nothing's holding it, there's a drop down menu to take no action, have it deleted, or have it moved or renamed.

 

[thealmightyone]

Unlocker just says it cannot delete the file. Am letting Filemon gather all the processes etc, then will do a search later.

 

[thealmightyone]

In Filemon, if I delete every instance which has the file I;m trying to delte from the list of processes, I STILL can't delete.

Does deleting a thread actually stop that process?

 

[Eric Richards]

so what is the file name?

 

[thealmightyone]

...\[My Name]\Desktop\Image.nrg

(I've had nothing but trouble trying to burn my first movie, so am just uninstalling Nero and deleting all images. I just have this last hurdle.)

 

[Eric Richards]

it is a "Nero CD-Image File"
thank this web site http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=nrg&Search=Search

have you checked the attributes, like once I could not re-name a file and found it was a "read only" file I had taken off a CDROM

 

[gamerman4]

try downloading killbox
http://www.scancomplete.com/download/killbox/
it has a feature to delete the file upon booting

if worst comes to worst, do you have a second comp available? pull the hdd out and plug it in to another comp and delete it from that.

 

[apj101]

try downloading killbox
http://www.scancomplete.com/download/killbox/
it has a feature to delete the file upon booting

if worst comes to worst, do you have a second comp available? pull the hdd out and plug it in to another comp and delete it from that.

bit drastic you could just boot to dos, or even linux and kill the file from there

 

[thealmightyone]

Killbox does **** all after rebooting, so booting to DOS is the best option. Now, to work out what to do when I boot to DOS...

EDIT: Would anyone be able to walk me through it?

 

[apj101]

err navigate to the file using cd command
and delete the fill using del command