LockHunter is a free tool to delete files blocked by something you do not know. LockHunter is useful for fighting against malware, and other programs that are blocking files without a reason. Unlike other similar tools it deletes files into the recycle bin so you may restore them if deleted by mistake.
Key Features:
- Shows processes locking a file or folder
- Allows to unlock, delete, copy or rename a locked file
- Allows to kill locking process
- Allows to remove locking processes from hard drive
- Can unload DLLs from processes
- Integrates in to Explorer menu
- It deletes files into the recycle bin, so you may restore them if deleted by mistake
- Supports both 32 and 64-bit Windows
Bug fixes:
- Improved performance of locking process scan
- GDI objects count grows with each UI refresh
- The icon in the Explorer context menu had white background, now it’s transparent
- If asked to delete directories on OS restart it falsely reported they were deleted, while actually it didn’t that
- The process list didn’t always scroll with mouse wheel
- “Delete selected processes from disk” function always displayed false result even if file was deleted
- In WinXP in some cases “Cannot open service control manager” was displayed
Changes in 3.3 stable from the previous beta:
- Progress bar is displayed on search for the locking processes
- “Menu…” link is replaced by “Hamburger” icon
- The process list didn’t always scroll with mouse wheel
- Wrong processes displayed on non existing path (ver 3.3 bug)
- “Thread error” message was displayed in some cases (ver 3.3 bug)
- “Delete selected processes from disk” function always displayed false
- result even if file was deleted
- In WinXP in some cases “Cannot open service control manager” was displayed
Download: LockHunter 3.3.4 | 3.2 MB (Freeware)
View: LockHunter Home Page | Release Notes