Can't edit MP3s properly all the time. How to make Win2K "let go"?

[StargateFan]

I've posted this in another Win2K group as well as to a couple of
others. No one seems to know the fix. My computer is an older one:
PIII, 650 MHz, 128 SDRAM. I'm consistently and daily running into
difficulties but esp. with trying to edit the tags. When I switched
editors thinking that my trusty one that I'd used for years might not
work with this OS, found it wasn't my program but the OS. The msg was
something along the lines of "file in use by another system", or some
such. That is never the case. No other application is actively using
the file.

A fix to unregister shmedia.dll doesn't work as that file doesn't
exist on my computer. (I searched with files unhidden, of course.)

Does _anyone_ know how to fix this. Yes, an upgrade in systems would
be nice, but it's impossible, so that fix is out <g>.

TIA.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I've posted this in another Win2K group as well as to a couple of
others. No one seems to know the fix. My computer is an older one:
PIII, 650 MHz, 128 SDRAM. I'm consistently and daily running into
difficulties but esp. with trying to edit the tags. When I switched
editors thinking that my trusty one that I'd used for years might not
work with this OS, found it wasn't my program but the OS. The msg was
something along the lines of "file in use by another system", or some
such. That is never the case. No other application is actively using
the file.

A fix to unregister shmedia.dll doesn't work as that file doesn't
exist on my computer. (I searched with files unhidden, of course.)

Does _anyone_ know how to fix this. Yes, an upgrade in systems would
be nice, but it's impossible, so that fix is out <g>.

TIA.

It would be helpful if you stated these things:
- Your operating system
- The names of the MP3 editors you use
- The verbatim error message (instead of "..or some such")
- The exact sequence of events that causes the problem.

You can use nthandle.exe from www.sysinternals.com
to see what files are currently open and which application
keeps them locked.