How to delete a file being used by another program Here are some practical ways to dodge the pop-up and delete files that are in use by a program on your Windows PC.

Windows won't let you delete, move, or rename a file if a program is using it. Frustratingly, it also won't tell you which program is using the file so that you can solve the problem.

If you cannot delete a file or a folder on an NTFS file system volume in Windows, follow the solutions mentioned in this post to resolve the issue.

Sdelete, short for Secure Delete, is a powerful but little-known tool from Microsoft's Sysinternals suite that permanently wipes files and folders by overwriting data.