Check out the following ways on how to view these hidden programs:. Scroll down to view the list of hidden and visible programs. Check the description and the name to identify each process. You can get additional information by searching online for the process name.
Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Show 13 more comments. From its introduction: Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Enter the name of the file and press Search. Peter Mortensen Eroen Eroen 6, 1 1 gold badge 15 15 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. Process Hacker also can do it. As another answer mentions, Handle is a command line tool from SysInternals that will also accomplish this task.
I forgot a cmd proces open in the folder, proces explorer helped me notice it. Show 2 more comments. Shows processes locking a file or folder Allows to unlock, delete, copy or rename a locked file Allows to kill locking process Allows to remove locking processes from hard drive Integrates in to Explorer menu It deletes files into the recycle bin, so you may restore them if deleted by mistake Supports both 32 and 64bit Windows.
Community Bot 1. Mehper C. Palavuzlar Mehper C. Palavuzlar Top two answers didn't work me and the next upvoted ones were either blocked by my firewall or warned not to go to by my chrome!. LockHunter worked perfectly. Luck hunter has worked for me when others haven't — sheldonhull.
This one works. This is great but the portable version doesn't integrate with the explorer menu — Phani Rithvij. Add a comment. John: Well, it does identify the program that has locked a file. And you can still manually kill the process through task manager. However, it's usually simpler to just unlock the file especially when it's explorer that has locked the file most of the time instead of having the kill the process that has locked it usually due to having accessed the file and left the file handler open due to a program glitch.
Though the best part is the explorer menu integration, which is easy to enable. As per website Explorer Context Menu Starting from version 1. This tool still works reliably in Vijay Vijay 1, 13 13 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. Wonderful tool, as always with Nirsoft freeware! Rajesh Rajesh 51 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge.
This will only work for shared folders. Additional possibility, just to save people the time I just spent: In older versions of Windows, you might get "Access Denied - you might not have rights, or the file might be in use". Change ownership to Administrators and you are good to go. Stu Stu 3 3 bronze badges. Incidentally, none of the above answers solved my problem. This will open a File Explorer window that points to the actual application shortcut file. No matter how you located the shortcut, a properties window will appear.
Look for a folder with a name similar to the publisher of the program, or the name of the application itself.
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