Wh show you how to identify the process that is holding or locking up a file on Windows 11/10 using command-line, ResMon, Process Explorer or freeware.

In the previous posting, I covered the installation of Process Explorer and setting things up so that it runs automatically at startup time with its icon permanently displayed in the system tray ...

Hi I have winxp pro sp2 installed and it seems the svchost process is consuming the majority of the cpu the majority of the time.Using process explorer I found that wbemcore.dll was the problem ...

Fire up process explorer and find the file is in use by, wait for it, Windows explorer. So Windows Explorer can't rename/move my file because it's in use by itself.

XP's Event Viewer and Vista's Windows Event Logs can help diagnose system woes, but Sysinternals' free Process Explorer gives you the real inside scoop.

Using Process Explorer Download Process Explorer from the Windows Sysinternals website (link in Resources). Alternately, you can run the program directly from the website.

Other improvements to Process Explorer include built-in disk and network monitoring, more memory statistics, more reliable DLL scanning, and other goodies outlined at the Sysinternals blog.