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I want a software, similar to Unlocker or something in which we can delete files that are used by another process, for Windows 2008 R2.

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Warning, you could be headed for data corruption. – Martin Feb 26 '10 at 13:18
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If you mean the Kernel itself, you may be out of luck... If you mean just on Windows 2008 R2, I recommend you use Microsoft / Sysinternals Process Explorer.

You can press the find button and type the name of the file you are trying to delete, it will then show you what application / module has an active handle to it and basically kill that process so you can delete the file.

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i dont want to kill the process as i know which process is using that file. I just want to unlock that file from that process. – SyncMaster Feb 26 '10 at 12:24
You can close the handle, not need to kill the process. Some applications might not like it, some will not bother. And instead of killing the app, just closing it gracefully will do too :-) . – Snark Feb 26 '10 at 12:26
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Another alternative is Lockhunter.

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The sysinternals handle command can find what process has a file locked, and forceably close the handle.

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Try WhoLockMe. It says NT/2K/XP but it may work with 2008

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