Unlocker Portable

Deleting files and folders seems like a breeze. However, that only happens when it actually works: select the items to delete, send the deletion command from the right-click menu or keyboard, wait for the task to be over.

There are times when you only receive an error that tells you various reasons why the files cannot be successfully removed from your computer. As frustrating as it gets, retrying to delete the same selection only calls for another error, and so on.

Unlocker Portable clears those exact dead-times out and provides multiple solutions. The sources of such errors reside in the fact that the selected files and folders for deletion are accessed by a specific application, trigger a sharing violation or they currently are in use. On any of these occasions, Unlocker Portable steps in and saves the day.

Just run the app and point to the particular file or folder to delete. If your selection is currently not locked in by any process, you get a message that tells you this and asks for the action you would like to perform: delete, rename or move the object. The same actions along with file copy are given to you when unleashing Unlocker Portable on a locked file or folder.

This time around, the program draws a list of the processes that use the targeted file, giving you the possibility to terminate the process (which automatically cuts the connection to the file) or unlock the file by just terminating all processes which are using it. The unlocking operation attempts to close the handles of the process, unload the DLL, and only then can it kill the process to successfully delete the associated file. If this fails too, Unlocker Portable asks whether you would like to schedule a deletion during the next boot of the operating system (in case the files are currently being used by the operating system).

The application can help you delete the index.dat files from your system as well as files with invalid names. Its interface is as simple as it gets but hides a truly huge potential. Apart from that, when it comes to forced deletion of anything on your computer, Unlocker Portable is ideal.