Check file is locked?

[Rajat]

On Jul 9, 3:21 pm, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> Rajat wrote:
> > The Notepad process information is fine here. However, with wordpad
> > the results are not much differentiating:
>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------­---
> > wordpad.exe pid: 2832 COMP\rajatd
> >    1C: File  (RW-)   C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-
> > Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.5512_x-ww_35d4ce83
> >    40: File  (RW-)   C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-
> > Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.5512_x-ww_35d4ce83
> >    74: Section       \BaseNamedObjects\ShimSharedMemory
> >    F8: Section       \BaseNamedObjects
> > \CiceroSharedMemDefaultS-1-5-21-57989841-1580818891-839522115-1653
> >   170: Section       \BaseNamedObjects\RotHintTable
> >   184: File  (RW-)   C:\Documents and Settings\rajatd\My Documents
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------­---
> > wordpad.exe pid: 844 COMP\rajatd
> >    1C: File  (RW-)   C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-
> > Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.5512_x-ww_35d4ce83
> >    40: File  (RW-)   C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-
> > Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.5512_x-ww_35d4ce83
> >    74: Section       \BaseNamedObjects\ShimSharedMemory
> >    F8: Section       \BaseNamedObjects
> > \CiceroSharedMemDefaultS-1-5-21-57989841-1580818891-839522115-1653
> >   170: Section       \BaseNamedObjects\RotHintTable
> >   184: File  (RW-)   C:\Documents and Settings\rajatd\My Documents
>
> > Both the wordpad applications opened 2 totally different files kept at
> > different locations on the system.
>
> > So, on the basis of above results one can not say out of these 2
> > wordpad apps which is the right one that could be closed. The only
> > different thing among the two is the PIDs.
>
> Rajat: are you trying to find out which app is holding a file open?
>
> If so -- run handle.exe *for that filename*, as my code does:
>
> handle.exe <filename>
>
> This will only show which apps are holding that file. I suspect
> you're running handle.exe on its own which will show everything
> which is holding handles on anything.
>
> 1) Use wordpad.exe to open c:\temp\blah.txt
>
> 2) Run "handle.exe c:\temp\blah.txt"
>
> 3) Observe (at least on my Win XP Sp3 machine) that *no* process
> has a handle open on c:\temp\blah.txt, including wordpad, which
> presumably opens the file, reads it, and closes it again.
>
> The items you're seeing above are system-level handles which
> wordpad is holding for reasons of its own, but none of them
> is a user filename.
>
> TJG- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Thanks Tim for the details. Just further on this, my whole idea is to
close the wordpad / notepad application so that I can delete the file
and the directory where this file resides.

With notepad it is no more a problem. But I'm concerned about the
wordpad now.