Unlocker on Vista

[ceed]

Hi,

One of my favorite freeware apps is Unlocker. It's a simple solution to a
very annoying problem: Getting rid of files Windows won't let you delete
for one reason or the other.

I have installed it on Vista and it works...sorta. What doesn't work is
having it pop up automatically when a files are locked like it does on XP.
I have completely gotten rid of UAC (which was driving me nuts!) so I do
not understand why it won't work. Ideas anyone?

If you do not have Unlocker, get it here:

http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

 

[Wim Hekken ;-)]

ceed schreef:

Hi,

One of my favorite freeware apps is Unlocker. It's a simple solution to
a very annoying problem: Getting rid of files Windows won't let you
delete for one reason or the other.

I have installed it on Vista and it works...sorta. What doesn't work is
having it pop up automatically when a files are locked like it does on
XP. I have completely gotten rid of UAC (which was driving me nuts!) so
I do not understand why it won't work. Ideas anyone?

If you do not have Unlocker, get it here:

http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

Did you read this?

- How to make Unlocker work on Windows Vista? You need to deactivate UAC
globally for the whole system or locally just for Unlocker. Globally, go
to "Control Panel" then "User Accounts" then again "User Accounts" then
"Turn User Account Control" and set it to Off, then restart your
computer. Locally go to the Unlocker install directory (usually
C:/Program Files/Unlocker), right-click Unlocker.exe, select Properties,
and on the "Compatibility" tab, under "Priviledge Level" enable "Run
this program as administrator". Click "allow" everytime you will get the
UAC prompt to ask if you want to run Unlocker. Thanks to Mike Cerminara
for his help.

 

[ceed]

Wim Hekken ;-) wrote:

|Did you read this?
|
|- How to make Unlocker work on Windows Vista? You need to deactivate
}|UAC globally for the whole system or locally just for Unlocker.
|Globally, go to "Control Panel" then "User Accounts" then again "User
|Accounts" then "Turn User Account Control" and set it to Off, then
|restart your computer. Locally go to the Unlocker install directory
(usually C:/Program Files/Unlocker), right-click Unlocker.exe, select
|Properties, and on the "Compatibility" tab, under "Priviledge Level"
|enable "Run this program as administrator". Click "allow" everytime you
|will get the UAC prompt to ask if you want to run Unlocker. Thanks to
|Mike Cerminara for his help.


I did read the above, but Unlocker still isn't popping up like it did on
XP when a file is locked. I have to manually use it. Not that it's a big
issue, it was just very convenient the way it worked on XP.

 

[Adam Albright]

Hi,

One of my favorite freeware apps is Unlocker. It's a simple solution to a
very annoying problem: Getting rid of files Windows won't let you delete
for one reason or the other.

Oh I see. You admit you're an idiot then.

I have installed it on Vista and it works...sorta. What doesn't work is
having it pop up automatically when a files are locked like it does on XP.
I have completely gotten rid of UAC (which was driving me nuts!) so I do
not understand why it won't work. Ideas anyone?

Why don't you ask you buddy Frank? You know he's our resident expert
on everything. FYI.

 

[ceed]

Adam Albright wrote:

|
||Hi,
||
||One of my favorite freeware apps is Unlocker. It's a simple
||solution to a very annoying problem: Getting rid of files Windows
||won't let you delete for one reason or the other.
|
|Oh I see. You admit you're an idiot then.

Not an idiot I think, but I have things I need to learn. However, I do
respect your opinion and advice. You can be quite good when you're not
upset and mad at someone.

||
||I have installed it on Vista and it works...sorta. What doesn't
||work is having it pop up automatically when a files are locked like
||it does on XP. I have completely gotten rid of UAC (which was
||driving me nuts!) so I do not understand why it won't work. Ideas
||anyone?
|
|Why don't you ask you buddy Frank? You know he's our resident expert
|on everything. FYI.

I ask everyone here, including Frank. Isn't that what posting actually
is for?

 

[Wim Hekken ;-)]

Wim Hekken ;-) wrote:

|Did you read this?
|
|- How to make Unlocker work on Windows Vista? You need to deactivate
}|UAC globally for the whole system or locally just for Unlocker.
|Globally, go to "Control Panel" then "User Accounts" then again "User
|Accounts" then "Turn User Account Control" and set it to Off, then
|restart your computer. Locally go to the Unlocker install directory
(usually C:/Program Files/Unlocker), right-click Unlocker.exe, select
|Properties, and on the "Compatibility" tab, under "Priviledge Level"
|enable "Run this program as administrator". Click "allow" everytime you
|will get the UAC prompt to ask if you want to run Unlocker. Thanks to
|Mike Cerminara for his help.


I did read the above, but Unlocker still isn't popping up like it did on
XP when a file is locked. I have to manually use it. Not that it's a big
issue, it was just very convenient the way it worked on XP.

You'll have to live with this problem until a new Vista-version of
Unlocker has been developed. Vista has handles filesecurity completely
different.

 

[Frank]

Adam Albright wrote:

|
||Hi,
||
||One of my favorite freeware apps is Unlocker. It's a simple
||solution to a very annoying problem: Getting rid of files Windows
||won't let you delete for one reason or the other.
|
|Oh I see. You admit you're an idiot then.

Not an idiot I think, but I have things I need to learn. However, I do
respect your opinion and advice. You can be quite good when you're not
upset and mad at someone.

||
||I have installed it on Vista and it works...sorta. What doesn't
||work is having it pop up automatically when a files are locked like
||it does on XP. I have completely gotten rid of UAC (which was
||driving me nuts!) so I do not understand why it won't work. Ideas
||anyone?
|
|Why don't you ask you buddy Frank? You know he's our resident expert
|on everything. FYI.

I ask everyone here, including Frank. Isn't that what posting actually
is for?

Never mind adam...as he's a mentally crippled, failed backroom
accountant trying unsuccessfully to cook the books and afraid to accept
his own incompetence so he blames everyone else for his short falls.
Thus the first words out of his big mouth usually are something along
the lines of "Oh I see. You admit you're an idiot then".

I've never used Unlocker so my only advice would be to install it using
compatibility mode (XP SP2).
Frank

 

[Adam Albright]

Never mind adam...as he's a mentally crippled, failed backroom
accountant trying unsuccessfully to cook the books and afraid to accept
his own incompetence so he blames everyone else for his short falls.

What the little monkey Frank is trying to say is he's jealous I had a
very highly respected job with a major Welfare and Pension Trust Fund
of the worlds biggest labor organization, AFL-CIO and I got such a
high salary I was able to retire in my early 40's... twenty years ago.
I then started my second and then my third career. Frankie can't stand
the fact I forgot more then a babbling little idiot like him will ever
know.

ROTFLAMO!

 

[Frank]

Adam Albright wrote:

What the little monkey Frank is trying to say is he's jealous I had a
very highly respected job with a major Welfare and Pension Trust Fund
of the worlds biggest labor organization, AFL-CIO and I got such a
high salary I was able to retire in my early 40's... twenty years ago.
I then started my second and then my third career. Frankie can't stand
the fact I forgot more then a babbling little idiot like him will ever
know.

ROTFLAMO!

What adam, the drunken fool is really saying is that he got fired from a
small company for cooking the books. He's been unemployed and
unemployable ever since. He can't figure out how to properly run or
configure his one little install of Vista business so he constantly
blames everyone else, including MS, for his stupidity and total lack of
computer knowledge.
He also hates the fact that I'm taller, have all my own hair (he's fat
and bald!) that I am much better looking and have made tons more money
than he ever did or could.
He's the true definition of a real whining loser!
Frank

Oh, and one other thing...he's a PUTZ...lol!

 

[Adam Albright]

Adam Albright wrote:



What adam, the drunken fool is really saying is that he got fired from a
small company for cooking the books. He's been unemployed and
unemployable ever since. He can't figure out how to properly run or
configure his one little install of Vista business so he constantly
blames everyone else, including MS, for his stupidity and total lack of
computer knowledge.
He also hates the fact that I'm taller, have all my own hair (he's fat
and bald!) that I am much better looking and have made tons more money
than he ever did or could.
He's the true definition of a real whining loser!
Frank

Oh, and one other thing...he's a PUTZ...lol!

You really are a delusional pile of crap you know. Who am I to take
away your crazy fantasies to desperately cling to. That's all an old
fool like you has.

 

[Frank]

You really are a delusional pile of crap you know. Who am I to take
away your crazy fantasies to desperately cling to. That's all an old
fool like you has.

Sh*t! Now you're slobbering over the feed pan.
Grow up you idiot!
Frank