File and Folder Unlocker tool – You’ve found the tool you need - our Unlocker deletes locked files with ease!

Want to get rid of errors like Cannot delete a folder: it is being used by another process, Error deleting file or folder? Then You’ve found the tool you need - our Unlocker Tool deletes locked files and folders with ease!

Unlocker was designed to remove a file's access restrictions. It will help when you are unable to copy files and folders locked by some applications or with long paths. They could be created by virus/adware/different OS/other software. Normally one can't access such files under Windows and therefore is not able to unlock file and delete them either.

In some cases, files cannot be accessed due to Windows file-access bugs. In such cases Windows informs a user the file is currently in use - even if it's not. Our Unlocker Tool can effectively bypass this bug's restrictions; it unlocks or disables whatever is preventing the user to access that file.

Please check other Features for more details. Also you can download the latest evaluation version on our download page.

Unlocker Tool uses a variety of methods to delete persistent or locked files, including attempting to close the handle, killing the process holding the file open, unloading the DLL that may have opened the file handle, scheduling the file to be deleted on the next reboot, force delete etc.
The program works under Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and 7.

Have you have ever gоt a message from Windows like:

Cannot delete file: Access is denied. File is locked by process

There has been a sharing violation.

The source or destination file may be in use.

The file is in use by another program or user.

Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

Error Deleting File or Folder

Cannot delete file or folder The file name you specified is not valid or too long. Specify a different file name.

Unlocker Tool

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"I use netapp storage, and a volume was filling up.
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1) the existing volume needed some free space, and
2) subdividing is useful for keeping our netapp volumes below the limit at which we
can use their deduplication technology.
The problem was this 600GB of data was full of incredibly long paths which could not be deleted.
Even after I migrated the data to a new volume, I could not remove the now out of production root-level folder,
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