How to delete a file being used by another program Here are some practical ways to dodge the pop-up and delete files that are in use by a program on your Windows PC.

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.

When you can't open, edit, or delete a file in Windows File Explorer, the file is still open in a program running in the ...

If you can delete it, good, else you may need to first disable thumbs.db creation and then try. Read: The action can’t be completed because the file is open in another program.

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.

It won't work through the command prompt either if another program has locked the file. To find out what program has locked a file, use WhoLockMe.

Once you have it installed, you can simply right-click the stubborn file and select Unlocker. Then you select the file from the program’s list, select Delete from the pull-down menu in the lower ...