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Unlocker is a small, free, and powerful software that lets you see which process is holding the lock on the file/folder and then helps you unlock it. After Installing this software you can simply right click the file/folder that is giving “Access is Denied” or “FIle May Be In Use” errors and then click on Unlocker.
A new window will now pop-up showing the processes as shown below. Now you can either unlock all of the processes or kill the process.
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On the left of the ‘Kill Process’ button there is a drop down menu where you can select Copy, Move, Rename, or Delete functions for a locked file.
This program is useful for the following types of errors,
- Cannot delete file: Access is denied
- There has been a sharing violation.
- The source or destination file may be in use.
- The file is in use by another program or user.
- Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.