Forcedel - to unlock and delete

If you get this error "Cannot delete: It is being used by another person or program, Error" Then It's a common problem in Windows. This usually means that the silly explorer.exe or some other process has opened a handle to the file and forgot to close it. I made a program for such situations- its called ForceDelete. Now all you need to do is drag-drop any files/folders onto the ForceDel icon and they'll be deleted immediately smile.gif Or you can double click the ForceDel icon and it'll stay in your system tray. When you try to delete files that are in use, ForceDel will kick in and delete the file for you!

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twaindriver (2008-12-02)

Is this supposed to work?

rumpole (2008-12-03)

I use Unlocker: http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker
It will also rename, move process-locked files

 FightingBigBrother (2008-12-03)

Nice effort. Bit of feedback: it doesn't delete files with no name. Can you get it to delete folders too.
Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing your work. Useful for Portables if you can code the above 2 problems out.

mroboto (2008-12-03)

Thanks,
the only problem,this program do not prompt for erase or cancel before erasing, if you accidentally drop something on that,forget it.it's better to put it in a zip file when you don't need it.

markbellows (2008-12-06)

Thanks for suggestion friends...I try to implement folder delete and a command to help deleting useful files.

markbellows (2008-12-09)

Folder deletion works in Sp2 well and to avoid deletion accidentally rename it recycle bin 2 and post in desktop :D

mroboto (2008-12-11)

you can put Forcedel.exe in a folder named Forcedel and compress in a self extract (exe) 7z archive,the 7z exe have the same icon and the same name but if you drop something on it,you have the choice to extract or not the real Forcedel.exe

mroboto (2008-12-11)

The worst problem i have seen,it's a file i could not rename or erase because the file (didn't exist) or cannot be found.copylock cannot erase a folder or the file,unlocker don't work as it shoule with vista 64 bit.so i have move all the others files from the folder containing the bad file and i have been able to erase the folder with Cyberscrub privacy suite.i got a chance the file was in a folder.because,he cannot find the file to directly erase it.

soppelbox (2009-04-21)

rumpole is right. Unlocker does the job. tnx