How to unlock files using handle.exe and process name?

windows-7 sysinternals

Solution 1

You can use handle.exe once to list the PIDs and handles, then again multiple times to close each one.

Use the for /f command to loop through the result of the first command. I don't have a Windows machine handy to test on, but it should look something like this:

From a batch file:

for /F "tokens=3,6 delims=: " %%I IN ('handle.exe -accepteula TestPro.log') DO handle.exe -c %%J -y -p %%I

From the command-line:

for /F "tokens=3,6 delims=: " %I IN ('handle.exe -accepteula TestPro.log') DO handle.exe -c %J -y -p %I

Solution 2

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/handle.aspx

TEST AND DISPLAY (DRY-RUN):

for /f "tokens=3,6 skip=5 delims=: " %i in ('handle.exe -accepteula notepad.exe') do @echo %i %j

EXECUTE (CLOSE HANDLES):

for /f "tokens=3,6 skip=5 delims=: " %i in ('handle.exe -accepteula notepad.exe') do handle.exe -c %j -y -p %i

EXECUTE (CLOSE HANDLES) AND THEN TASKKILL:

for /f "tokens=3,6 skip=5 delims=: " %i in ('handle.exe -accepteula notepad.exe') do handle.exe -c %j -y -p %i & taskkill /t /f /PID %i

Radek

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Radek almost 2 years

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Except I just cant get it to work.

This is what I want:

This is basically what I got:

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                    <h1>Header</h1>
                    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.
                        Illo suscipit facilis ipsum ullam reiciendis odio error
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                </div>

                <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6">
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                    <h1>Header</h1>
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                <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6">
                    <img src="img/picture.jpg" alt="" style="height: 85px">
                    <h1>Header</h1>
                    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.
                        Illo suscipit facilis ipsum ullam reiciendis odio error
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Mihai T over 6 years

and what have you tried to solve this problem ? i see that all cols have the same classes

Radek over 11 years

I cannot make it work. Your code gives me ('handle.exe was unexpected at this time. I think there is missing in before ('handle.exe was unexpected at this time. But then %%J contains :` so it's not valid argument for handle.exe
Stephen Jennings over 11 years

Yeah, I remember having trouble getting the command exactly right, but I can't remember what I did off the top of my head. I'm trying to get access to my batch file again so I can update my answer with the right syntax.
Stephen Jennings over 11 years

@Radek I updated my answer with the actual code I used. Looks like I got %%I and %%J mixed up, and we need the colon as a delimiter. Try this and see how it goes.
Radek over 11 years

Works nicely (both batch file & command line versions) if cmd started as administrator. Any idea how I can make it work as a part of my overnight automation testing? runas doesn't work for me in this case.
Radek over 11 years

Got it working. The trick is that the command to run under runas is in fact cmd.exe and the argument for cmd is your code. I was doing it without cmd.
johntrepreneur almost 10 years

@StephenJennings - any chance you could whip up this same syntax in powershell?
bertieb over 7 years

Can you expand on this and explain how it improves on the (four and a half year old) accepted answer?
I say Reinstate Monica over 7 years

I see your commands are different than the accepted answer, so its a legitimate answer. However, as bertieb indicated, your answer needs an explanation as to what your commands will do and how they address the OPs question. Thanks for contributing to SuperUser.
WebDevBooster over 6 years

In the second code snippet I just added, the small images and their text content are separated in 2 different columns and <div class="w-100"></div> is used as a separator.
Admin over 6 years

Thanks this did exactly what I wanted! I edited it a little bit to what I wanted with the pictures, except one thing I dont understand is how I can match the width of images to the width of the column its in. jsfiddle.net/ggqt15zm/4 This was my idea for the smaller screens by the way but I wanted to focus on desktop first and then later work on the smaller screens. No idea if thats the right way to do it. imgur.com/a/SbFb1