This means any process that’s currently hogging your file will be restarted and will hopefully relinquish its grip on your file. Restart the PCĪs a simple solution, restarting the PC also restarts all the processes on your computer. How can you shut down the process if Windows won’t tell you which one is the culprit? Thankfully, we don’t have to give up hope just yet there’s still a few more tricks we can try. This is especially infuriating, as there’s no obvious way to fix the issue. Unfortunately, sometimes Windows will claim the file is locked, but it won’t tell you what, exactly, is locking the file. Alternatively, you can right click it and click “End Task.” With the process selected, click on the “End task” button at the bottom right. First, ensure the process isn’t something crucial to the operation of Windows, as we don’t want to crash or corrupt the system! If you’re sure the process isn’t integral to the system, open Task Manager by pressing “Shift + Ctrl + ESC.” Click the “Details” tab, and find the process locking your file.
If closing the software doesn’t fix it, there’s a chance the process wasn’t fully stopped. If Windows tells you the process’ name, then it’s a simple case of finding the process in question and shutting it down. The solution in the above example is to find the WPS Writer window with this document open and shut it down. For instance, the above image shows a document locked in WPS Writer. If you’re lucky, Windows will let you know what app has locked the file. This isn’t about files with a password lock on them or folders that deny you access due to insufficient security rights these are different ways files can be “locked!” If You Know the Process Locking the File Close the App Locking the File This then creates a “locked” file which you can’t edit outside of the process currently using the file.
To clear things up when we talk about a “locked” file in this article, we mean a file that is currently in use in another process.
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