Comments on: How To Edit or Delete a Locked File or Folder

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:55:16 +0000

This week, twice, Windows did security updates in the wee hours of the morning.

Found an unwanted folder left on D:\ with two subfolders. Access was denied trying to delete. Both folders included this file => filterpipelineprintproc.dll as well as others.

UNLOCKER to the rescue! Right-clicked on folder name, chose Unlocker/UnlockAll, waited for MsgBox to confirm. Then right-clicked again, chose Unlocker/Action:Delete. Again, waited for MsgBox confirmation. Did this on both subfolders. Clicked away, then clicked on folder itself again, and could then Delete it.

Thank you MakeUseOf for promoting this wonderful tool!

By: Doll

Doll — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:57:55 +0000

I use win system,user
And you can have it all…

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Thu, 21 May 2009 20:05:22 +0000

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By: guser

guser — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:41:50 +0000

yay thanks!
using lockhunter 64bits ^^

By: synergy

synergy — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:07:49 +0000

I have a stubborn little program that needs to be removed on my desktop so I’ll give this a go and see if it works.

By: dadsa

dadsa — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:23:18 +0000

unlocker is the only one I know of until now.

By: Mohammad Badi

Mohammad Badi — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:50:51 +0000

Noway, Unlocker is the best app to do this job.

By: venkat

venkat — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:49:00 +0000

I am using unlocker since some days for now it really worked great

By: Olaf

Olaf — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:48:35 +0000

File & Folder Unlocker doesn't work for me either. To replace Unlocker on a 64bits OS, you can try . Not as good as Unlocker, but seems to do the job for now.

By: CGA

CGA — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:09:47 +0000

Lockhunter is a good one that works with 64-bit.

By: Arun Shivaram

Arun Shivaram — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:18:51 +0000

I’ve only used unlocker so far, but always worried that it’s not a portable one. Now, this one surely finds a place on my pen drive.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:57:54 +0000

Unlocker is very impressive application that I have been using for years.

By: Danny Keith James

Danny Keith James — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:33:13 +0000

Doesn’t work for me with 64 bit Vista. Program just keeps crashing.

By: guser

guser — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:14:15 +0000

i used unlocker for a long time until i decided to install vista 64bits
too bad it doesnt work with 64bits :\