Title: How can I tell what process has a file opened on Windows? |
Use Windows Sysinternals Handle utility. For example, download http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Handle.zip and extract handle.exe to a directory in your PATH such as C:Windows. Or copy it to a new directory named C:Sysinternals and add that to your PATH. Here are some examples:
will show the usage information.
will show all handles in the system that refer to open files whose names include name_fragment
will show all types of handles in the system that refer to resources whose names include name_fragment. Use -a if you want to see resources on network attached storage (NAS) or a storage area network (SAN). For example, if drive M: is mapped to a network share named \MyServerpublic, use the following command to see what processes and users have opened the file W:mydirmyfile:
or simply:
For more information about Windows Sysinternals visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx |
Authored by: Veryant Support on Tue, Jul 13th, 2010 at 7:00 PM This question has been viewed 18850 times so far. |
Online URL: http://support.veryant.com/support/phpkb/question.php?ID=135 |
Powered by PHPKB Knowledge Base Software