Process Explorer
June 2, 2008
I have always been a bit disappointed in the standard windows task manager. It simply does not give enough information. For years I have been using process explorer from sysinternals which is now owned by Microsoft.
One of the great things process explorer can do is find the handles of open files. How many times have you tried to delete a directory or file and windows reports something has it open. With Process explorer you can hit Ctrl+F type in the file that is locked then it will find the handle to the file. From there you can simply right click on the handle and select close. Much faster then rebooting.
Process explorer is available from Microsoft from the link below.
Process Explorer
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