LockHunter: What Is Locking My File?
Posted By: Behrad 
Saturday 20 February 2010 
17 Comments
LockHunter is a great alternative for “Unlocker”. LockHunter is a free tool which deletes files which are blocked by something you don’t know. This could be a system process or perhaps by another program.
Usually when you want to delete such file you get a pop up which says: “Cannot delete file: Access is denied” or something similar. In this cases you are left with 2 options:
1: Restart your computer and try to delete the file
2: Using LockHunter!
When using LockHunter you’re able to see the processes which has locked the file or folder. Beside that LockHunter (which is available in both 32 & 64 bits version!) allows you to unlock, delete, copy, rename a locked file or kill the locking process! All you have to do to unlock a file (or folder) is click with your right mouse click and there it is: LockHunter: What is locking my file and you’ll get a screen like here below:
Now you can choose to unlock the file or perhaps delete the file. If you’ve chosen for the last option; then the file will be deleted and put into your recycle bin.
Publisher: LockHunter
Version: 1.0 Beta
OS: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 (both 32 & 64 bits)
Language: English
License: Freeware
Download size: 1.22 MB
Download LockHunter: Click here…
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Can unlocking these files do damage to your computer or do you have control over what happens after you open the file?
I think it is good to have lockhunter to delete files that are locked. It might contain some virus or other things that prevents it from being deleted.
This is a great product and has got me out of trouble many times.
As long as you know what you’re doing nothing bad can happen Corsair…
Off course that’s possible too Michelle… I have been in that situation before too! :S
Yeah, it really is Sphere IT Consulting…
Locked files have really come along ways from the good old days. Even us mac fan boys were not immune to trying to figure out why we can’t remove locked/in use files. Now it’s built in to the OS (and I’m sure it will be in future window’s versions). Thank goodness!
The article you have written about LockHunter and its use and benefits are really helpful for the pc users.
Thank you for posting such a useful tool! I’ll have to do a blog post about it once I’ve had a chance to try it out. Having dealt with some pesky viruses lately, I knew exactly what file I wanted to delete, but had to do the whole reboot thing for each one, which is mighty annoying! You are a lifesaver.
Great post, thanks. I have been in this situation before. I HATE those annoying messages ‘Cannot delete the file’, agh! And when you think you have deleted it, it’s still there!
lockhunter is a great program i have used it and it really does help get rid of those pesky viruses and files that just won’t go away.
Yeah, I think this kind of cool tools will be adopted in Windows too Provo Chiropractic.
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Thank Lindsey Schoke. This is indeed very handy in those situations!
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I posted about this myself recently, and it was a pleasure to read your opinion on it mate.
I blogged about this topic myself today, and it was great to see your take on it mate.
Best wishes,
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Thank god for Lockhunter. This program has saved me on more than one occasion.
hay is that so cool … let me try this then will say how does it do !!
Fortunately I’ve never come across such a situation but I’m interested because we never know we can face such situations anytime. What I liked about LockHunter is, the process sounds easy and better still, is to see the processes which has locked the file or folder.