MKV files locked by windows explorer
Well I wouldn’t want my first post to be a technical one, but I simply can’t resist writing this one.
Sometimes matroska files get locked by the windows explorer and then you are just stuck with the file on your HDD unable to move it or delete it. If this is not enough if you play the file in any media player your explorer stops responding and the computer gets hung with 100% CPU usage.
I tried googling the problem on the Internet and found several interesting solutions. Basically the solution was to unlock the file from the windows explorer using a software. One of the software available is unlocker. But as soon as I tried unlocking a file using unlocker my windows explorer stopped responding and my task manager showed 100% CPU usage … irritating. Now there was one other solution given lockhunter. But just when i was about to download that I got an idea.
Instead of using any 3rd party software why not try deleting the file using the windows command prompt after killing the explorer. So I started the command prompt, browsed to the file directory, then killed the explorer. and then typed in the command “DEL -A /P
DEL -A /PWell it was really exciting to find a solution that was never documented before.