I found myself oncemore with this annoyting predicament in windows where you wish to change a folder's name and it is locked by some mysterious process.
Although I had dealt with this issue in the past ("How to find who locks a file on Windows - and how to release it if a service is the locker") it has been a while since that post, and it seemed wise to see if there are more convenient answers... and there are !
The following superuser thread "Find out which process is locking a file or folder in Windows" turned beneficial, and the gist of the advice I best liked was:
- Run the Resource Monitor (resmon.exe from the search box)
- Go to the cpu tab
- In the associated handles section search for part of the folder name that is locked
And now you can handle it !
It is surprising how many times it is word who for some reason keeps a handle long after a file has been closed.
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