Cannot delete or open specific files that are 'in use' Cannot delete or open specific files that are 'in use'.
There is no way to delete it, if it's used by some application. Un. Lock IT is a neat utility that helps you to take control of any file or folder when it is locked by some application or system. For every locked resource, you get a list of locking processes and can unlock it by terminating those processes. EMCO Unlock IT offers Windows Explorer integration that allows unlocking files and folders by one click in the context menu. There's also Unlocker (not recommended, see Warning below), which is a free tool which helps locate any file locking handles running, and give you the option to turn it off. You're almost certainly better off with Un.
I created a simple program to delete temporary files in C# (for fun. Deleting files in use. This just instructs the.Net framework to force Garbage collection.
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