Windows 7 Delete file hint is occupied? System built-in tools to handle

In Windows, when you delete a file, the system prompts you to "be used by another program" so that it cannot be deleted, which we often encounter. This is because a background process is calling the file, and the deletion can only be done at the end of the process. So how do you locate the process? In general, we need third-party tools such as "Ice Blades". In fact, using its Resource Monitor in Windows 7 can be easily done.

Let's simulate a situation where the file cannot be deleted. In D disk, create a folder named Test, and then run the command prompt (CMD) and locate the command path in the folder directory. At this point, we delete the test folder, and a dialog box prompts you that the operation cannot be completed and that the folder or file opens in another program.

Next we can do this:

1. Right-Windows 7 taskbar-start Task Manager-performance-Resource Monitor

2. Click on the "CPU" tab in the console to navigate to the tab page

3. Enter "Test" in the search box to the right of "associated handle", where the system process associated with the test handle is automatically searched

4. You can see that the search process is cmd.exe (which confirms the scenario above). This means that the Cmd.exe process is invoking the test folder to cause a failure to delete the folder. Right-click the process, and then select the end Process command to eject the warning dialog box and confirm that the Cmd.exe process can be completed. Finally, delete the test folder and you can see that the folder was successfully deleted