If you receive File in Use, The action can’t be completed because the file is open in another program even if the file is closed in another program, then this post will help you. If you open the Task ...

When you can't open, edit, or delete a file in Windows File Explorer, it's either still open in a program running in the background or something didn't close properly. Luckily, you can force delete, ...

Win8.1 rant, but I first hit this several years ago on either WinXP or Win95. I decided to organize my music directory and was plagued by "Can't rename/move this directory as it's in use by another ...

If you can’t delete a file or a folder on an NTFS file system volume on your Windows computer, you fall under one of the following cases. An Access Control List (ACL) is being used You can’t delete ...

Jugalkumar Kshirsagar asked how to delete a file that Windows insists is open. For reasons that should be obvious, Windows can’t delete a file—or move one—if it’s in use by a program. The obvious ...

When working with files (especially when downloading stuff from the web using my web browser), I quite often keep downloaded .zip, .rar, etc files on my Desktop. Quite often I keep running into a ...