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[-] youngalfred@lemmy.zip 164 points 4 months ago

In case anyone is interested, there's a powertoy called file locksmith that will show what's using it and let you kill it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/file-locksmith

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 105 points 4 months ago

"Time to see who's stopping me from deleting this file... svchost??? Goddamn it!"

[-] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 16 points 4 months ago

Probably the indexing service, it's always the indexing service.

[-] Anivia@feddit.org 8 points 4 months ago

Well, it could be an executable disguising itself as svchost. Pretty common for malware or video game cheats to name their executables svchost.exe to hide from anti-virus/anticheat

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

I'm in this picture and I don't like it. I was trying to diagnose a prod server crashing this very Wednesday and seeing the lines of svchost.exe is so fucking maddening... I'm glad ProcessExplorer was there to give some useful fucking info, at least.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 4 months ago

Powertoys seems to be the only thing keeping windows somewhat usable, I have no idea why they don't include it in the build.

[-] Mikina@programming.dev 16 points 4 months ago

I discovered powertoys only recently, and it's a pretty cool set of tools. From color picker, tiling window manager to regex file renames or copy/paste tools, it has a lot of QoL features.

If you have to be on windows, i.e due ro work, I recommend not sleeping on it.

[-] affenlehrer@feddit.org 5 points 4 months ago

The performance view thing that comes with windows also allows searching for file handles but it's not very user friendly. Also not possible without admin rights if I remember correctly