[Cool Tool]Unlocker : Unlock Files/Folders without going nuts

Jean Paul Boodhoo has a nice tidbit about a new free tool called Unlocker that helps detect and actually unlock "locked" files in Windows. You know, those ones that seem to be held by some unknown entity on your machine.

Process Explorer is good to find that out, but Unlocker seems to have not only  better usability for this task (Simply right click on the file/folder and select "Unlocker"), it actually has more abilities and ways to make a file/folder unlocked (such as unloading a dll, which ProcessExplorer does not do, I believe).
 
 
Jean Paul adds:
"It actually gets better though. If you try to delete a folder that has a lock on it, unlocker will automatically pop up and allow you to perform an unlock or a kill process. "
 
Cool tool Indeed!
Published Thursday, June 15, 2006 9:42 AM by RoyOsherove

Comments

Thursday, June 15, 2006 6:50 AM by Michiel

# re: [Cool Tool]Unlocker : Unlock Files/Folders without going nuts

Interesting. Thanks for the link. Always problems with files locked up for no clear reason.
Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:40 AM by Keyvan Nayyeri

# Unlocker - Unlock your files or folders easily


 Roy has pointed to a very very useful tool: Unlocker.

Unlocker is a simple utility which lets...
Thursday, June 15, 2006 9:17 AM by Gabriel Lozano-Morán

# re: [Cool Tool]Unlocker : Unlock Files/Folders without going nuts

Great! Thx for the tip :-)
Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:15 AM by Sonu Kapoor [MVP]

# re: [Cool Tool]Unlocker : Unlock Files/Folders without going nuts

Thats a pretty useful tool. Thanks for letting us know Roy.
Sunday, June 18, 2006 11:24 PM by Christopher Steen

# Link Listing - June 18, 2006

[Cool Tool]Unlocker : Unlock Files/Folders without going
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Monday, June 26, 2006 1:55 AM by Soni

# re: [Cool Tool]Unlocker : Unlock Files/Folders without going nuts

How can we achieve this using C# code ..?
Any ideas ..?
Thanks
Soni
Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:15 PM by Development Odyssey

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