Process holding file open

As I found no other reasons for Windows to obstruct, I guess just unplugging the drives would also have been safe. Your email address will not be published. Aggiungi e-mail alla newsletter. Notify me of follow-up comments by email.

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Good luck! Hey ho! Been killing the process for few years. With handle. This error also happens with a file, when we tried to move a file, or delete those file. To get the process holding those folder or file, we can use these two utilities:.

You can then close the application if you are able to do that, or just right-click the row and you'll get the option of killing the process End Process right there. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. Same as Resource Monitor, an individual handle in the list can be killed by selecting it and pressing the delete key or Close Handle. However, please be careful when deleting handles, as system instabilities may occur.

Handle is a command line version of Process Explorer. I prefer to use Resource Monitor compare to Process Explorer since Process Explorer is slower especially during "Refreshing handles" process. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Harry Johnston Harry Johnston Elevating permissions, taking owership or killing 'fontdrvhost.

I know this is an old question but it is first result in google and I really struggled to figure it out today. But the only supported way to remove a font file in this scenario is to unregister the font and then reboot. Killing all the processes that have the file open might or might not work, but even if it did it would likely leave the system so unstable that you'd then need to reboot anyway. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.

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