CodeGuru: Who's Locking? v1.3

CodeGuru: Who's Locking? v1.3

"Have you ever tried to copy a DLL and had an "Access Denied" or "Shared Violation" error? Did you have to reboot everytime you needed to upgrade a DLL?

If yes, this program is for you!

Who'sLocking? is a a devpt/system management tool to find which process is locking a DLL.

Whenever a process loads a module (DLL), it locks the DLL and no other process can delete and/or write in it: you get "Sharing Violation" errors (or "Access Denied").

Once you know the name of the process who's locking your DLL, you can stop this process and have full access to the DLL module. There's no need to reboot your system anymore...

PROGRAM FEATURES

• Integrated in Windows Shell (right-mouse menu on DLL, OCX, or EXE files).
• Automatic installation/registration when launched first time.
• 1 parameter: name of executable module to search (DLL, OCX)
• Display list of processes who are locking a DLL (if DLL is loaded by multiples processes)
• Displays process name, PID, executable pathname (if applicable), and service name (if applicable)

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Cool tool. This will help you figure out what application/process/etc has a given file/dll/etc open.

It's free and the source is available too...

(via Shaju Thomas - Who's Locking?)