Windows 11 now lets you find out which processes are using the file

 

Microsoft's PowerToys for Windows 11 and Windows 10 has been refreshed with another element called 'Document LockSmith'. So what precisely is Record Locksmith? In specialized terms, a Windows shell expansion allows you to check which documents are being used and by which processes.

Up until the present time, it was unrealistic to figure out which specific interaction is utilizing the document on Windows. While Errand Chief allows you to dispense with processes, it can't let you know what's utilizing your documents or forestalling record move. As a matter of fact, Record Wayfarer will impede your endeavors to erase a document or envelope being used by an interaction or application.

This is an element incorporated into Document Traveler and it's empowered as a matter of course to diminish application crashes, however it very well may be irritating when you truly need to eliminate a record from the framework and you have no clue about where the document is being utilized. With PowerToys Record Locksmith, you can examine every single running interaction and check which documents they are utilizing.

As you can find in the above screen capture, the PowerToys Document Locksmith element can be effortlessly gotten to by means of the setting menu. You can choose any document or envelope and right-click on it, and afterward click on the choice to find out precisely which cycles are utilizing the record, as displayed in the beneath screen capture.

This could be extremely valuable assuming you're attempting to erase documents utilized by obscure applications that can't be force shut. In any case, the Record Locksmith highlight is flawed and it can't be utilized to get to processes utilized by an alternate client. Subsequently, a few records right now being used might be absent from the rundown of results.

Once distinguished, you can choose the End task button to end the cycle. You can likewise tap on the interaction to dive more deeply into the application. You can likewise physically invigorate the rundown of cycles by tapping on reload symbol.

As referenced at the start, Windows 11's new component can be valuable in a lot of ways, in the event that you know how to utilize it. Obviously, this element ought to be coordinated into the working framework as it can assist you with rapidly figuring out why your PC is dialing back, and afterward kill an interaction that is locking the document.

The component is still in testing through PowerToys and anybody can download it from the organization's GitHub. There's a remote possibility the component will be coordinated into Windows 11, yet that will not occur at any point in the near future.