Preview: Handy Sysinternals Utilities
This article was first published as “Locked Files in Windows” on 22 Jul 2009.
Note to self: Sysinternals is Microsoft’s saving grace:
Process Explorer: A more advanced taskmgr, if you will. It’s most awesome feature is it’s ability to search for processes holding a certain handle, allowing you to resolve locked file issues:
Home page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
Or just run it from http://live.sysinternals.com/procexp.exe
Process Monitor: Basically, Regmon + Filemon:
Home page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
Or just run it from http://live.sysinternals.com/Procmon.exe
