How to solve ” Program cannot be deleted because is already being used by another program ” error.

Posted on January 31st, 2007 by Jason

When you try to delete a folder or file you get the error ” File/Folder cannot be deleted because it’s already being used by another program ” . This happens because a process is still using the target file/folder.

To solve this error follow these steps:

1. Download Unlocker 1.8.5 .
2. Install the program.
3. Right click on the folder/file or file you want to delete and click ” Unlocker ” .
4. Now simply delete the folder/file (repeat the step for every folder/file that give you this error)

Note: Normaly you can kill the process that uses your file/folder, but sometimes thats not enough.

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3 Responses to “How to solve ” Program cannot be deleted because is already being used by another program ” error.”

  1. ahmad on 01 Feb 2007 at 8:16 pm #

    UnLocker RULE !!

  2. abzzz on 27 Jul 2007 at 11:55 am #

    It rocks….it fixed the problem without much hassle

  3. exiter on 03 Sep 2007 at 6:24 pm #

    i downloaded it and it still wants me to reboot…no help i don’t wanna reboot at this time.
    it may work other times but this time it didn’t, for me anyways…running Vista Ultimate

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