Loading ...My god it’s the little things with software… it’s always the little things that endear you to software for the long haul or turn you off of it forever.
As mentioned a few times, I’ve been on the Windows 7 RC for a bit over a week now and been pretty much thinking it’s great.
It seems another one of the nice little touches in Windows 7 is that when you try and delete a file that is locked by a process, it no longer just tells you that the delete failed — Windows will actually tell you which stupid process has the file locked so you can go close it (instead of rebooting and hoping for the best).
Here’s an example of a PNG I tried to erase off my desktop:
Pretty slick!
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May 10th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
This is about the only feature I’ve seen so far that I like about Windows 7. I’m not going to upgrade, If I’ll be using Windows at ALL these days, I’ll stick with XP.
May 11th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Wow – I guess I won’t need to install unlocker anymore
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
Laurence
September 1st, 2009 at 2:08 pm
I had an EXE file on Windows 7 RTM desktop that would not delete using normal methods. The file was locked by Explorer and no matter what was tried the file would not delete. The solution is Kill the explorer process in task manager. Leave task manager running click on New Task, type in CMD. CD to the desktop directory and manually delete the EXE file. Restart windows from the command prompt. Shutdown -r
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:51 am
Andreas,
Appreciate the tip — out of curiosity what was the file that was locked? I can’t imagine explorer locking random files on the disk… might want to virus scan?
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Actually it was a Dell Laptop BIOS revision update… And Im sure the system is clean. The only other thing, is that going to Windows 7 was an upgrade from Vista ultimate not a clean install