If you receive File in Use, The action can’t be completed because the file is open in another program even if the file is closed in another program, then this post will help you. If you open the Task ...

When you can't open, edit, or delete a file in Windows File Explorer, it's either still open in a program running in the background or something didn't close properly. Luckily, you can force delete, ...

Win8.1 rant, but I first hit this several years ago on either WinXP or Win95. I decided to organize my music directory and was plagued by "Can't rename/move this directory as it's in use by another ...

Jugalkumar Kshirsagar asked how to delete a file that Windows insists is open. For reasons that should be obvious, Windows can’t delete a file—or move one—if it’s in use by a program. The obvious ...

If you can’t delete an ISO file on your Windows computer, use the solutions provided below: Restart your computer and try again Eject or unmount the ISO file Boot in Safe Mode and delete the ISO file ...

There are instances where users reports getting an error “File is open in COM surrogate” when trying to access or rename and edit a file on Windows Properties ...

When working with files (especially when downloading stuff from the web using my web browser), I quite often keep downloaded .zip, .rar, etc files on my Desktop. Quite often I keep running into a ...

There are instances where users reports getting an error “File is open in COM surrogate” when trying to access or rename and edit a file on Windows Properties ...

Installing and uninstalling apps is a common task we do on our computers. On the Mac, it can sometimes happen that when you try to uninstall an app, the system reports: “Can’t delete a Mac app because ...