whats that running program?

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About a year or so ago I got advice from a newsgroup and downloaded a
program that can tell you what programs are running, and it was a good way
to find out what those pesky temp files that won't delete are from ("Cannot
delete that file, it is being used blah blah blah...") can anybody think of
such a program? it was freeware, or maybe a trial my original question
was... "I have some files that won't delete because windows says they are
being used, how can I find out what program is using that file?"
 
rwrede said:
About a year or so ago I got advice from a newsgroup and downloaded a
program that can tell you what programs are running, and it was a good way
to find out what those pesky temp files that won't delete are from
("Cannot delete that file, it is being used blah blah blah...") can
anybody think of such a program? it was freeware, or maybe a trial my
original question was... "I have some files that won't delete because
windows says they are being used, how can I find out what program is using
that file?"
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I use Security Task Manager from http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/
 
Task Manager is useful but you could look at another freeware utility
Process Explorer, which provides similar information but adds that
little bit extra towards seeing what the running processes represent.

For further information about Process Explorer see here:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml

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Hope this helps.

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The Windows command is OH.

If a file is open because it is executing, then the file can be renamed (files opened by programs can't be renamed) and then won't be able to be found on the next restart (because you renamed it) and so won't be running.

You can use OH from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

Type
oh +otl
reboot
then
oh /t file <filename>
or leave filename blank to see all.

EG to see what program has inbox.dbx open (OE's inbox file)

oh /t file inbox.dbx
which returns

//
// TIME: 2004-03-30 19:50
// MACHINE: SERENITY
// BUILD: 2600
// OH version: built by: dnsrv_dev(v-smgum)
//
//
00000CF0 msimn.exe File 050c \Documents and Settings\David Candy\
Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{E6E1A8F2-C885-46A5-975E-94A4A1F8C788
}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Inbox.dbx

[Microsoft Internet Mail And News (MSIMN.EXE) is the real name of Outlook Express rather than the marketing name. Office's Outlook internet features is a copy of Outlook Express. OL stole OE's code while OE got OL's name.]
 
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