XP Home: File In Use (but it's not)

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Background: New toshiba laptop; XP Home, SP2, all updates current, antivirus
current, about 70 processes running at any given time (seems high).
Create a new file (word, notepad, whatever). Save to the desktop and close
the file and the application. When I try to move the file to the trash or to
another folder I getting an error message with the following: File In Use
Thoughts appreciated. TIA
 
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 07:45:27 -0800, headly

|Background: New toshiba laptop; XP Home, SP2, all updates current, antivirus
|current, about 70 processes running at any given time (seems high).
|Create a new file (word, notepad, whatever). Save to the desktop and close
|the file and the application. When I try to move the file to the trash or to
|another folder I getting an error message with the following: File In Use
|Thoughts appreciated. TIA
try
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,25368,00.asp

HTH-Larry
Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.
 
headly said:
Background: New toshiba laptop; XP Home, SP2, all updates current, antivirus
current, about 70 processes running at any given time (seems high).
Create a new file (word, notepad, whatever). Save to the desktop and close
the file and the application. When I try to move the file to the trash or to
another folder I getting an error message with the following: File In Use
Thoughts appreciated. TIA
Click to expand...

use handle.exe from www.sysinternals.com to dump all file handles. If
you pipe this into a text file(c:\handle.exe > handles.txt) you can then
search the text file for the filename you are having trouble with. You
will then be able to locate which process has a hold on it.

tM
 
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