Do you ever try to delete a file/s on your Windows computer, just only to get a warning message from the Operating System (OS) that “the file is currently in use” or “the file is locked” or some other reason why it can’t be deleted from your hard disk?


For the solutions, you can try login to Safe Mode, killing process, and other time-consuming techniques to try to remove the file, but these tricks take considerable of knowledge and they actually work far from guaranteed.

This is a normal and repeated issue in Windows, but it became a personal grudge match for us too. If you’re cleaning up a hard disk and found any ancient, complete backups that are useless to you now (and for some reason Windows had the folders locked). And with hundreds of thousands of files in each one, scouring through the folders to find which file or files were “locked” just wasn’t going to happen.

Here comes Unlocker to rescue your day! Unlocker is a truly simple application that can delete and remove just any files, whether it’s locked or no.


To use it the easy way, after installing the software, simply right-click on the file or folder in Windows Explorer that you want to get rid of it and now select the “Unlocker” option that appears. Unlocker will automatically check out the file and either unlock it or inaccurately claim there’s no lock on the file.

Don’t worry: Just simply select “Delete” from the drop-down box and let the “Unlocker” do it’s work.


Sometimes, this will consume several minutes as it cranks through a large number of files. A system restart may be required (there’s an alert will tell you) for some files when Unlocker discovers they really locked, but after your system comes online. That’s it all!


Unlocker is a really small and unobtrusive application, always available when you need it. The only annoyance is: It will puts an eBay icon on your desktop and window’s quick launch bar. But, it’s still ok for me. Why not give it a try today!