What's new in ShowWhatProcessLocksFile 6.0

Apr 29, 2024
  • Improve performance by using NtDll API instead of Sysinternals Handle

New in ShowWhatProcessLocksFile 5.0 (Sep 16, 2023)

  • Enhance locking info retrieval using patched Sysinternals Handle utility.
  • Display the username for each process.
  • Allow the tool to run without admin privileges.
  • Introduce a button to restart the app in an elevated mode.

New in ShowWhatProcessLocksFile 4.0 (Feb 5, 2023)

  • Switch to using Handle2 to get information about locking files or folders.
  • Full Unicode support. No more ? signs in the file names containing non ASCII symbols.
  • Improved accuracy of the results.

New in ShowWhatProcessLocksFile 3.0 (Aug 30, 2022)

  • Warning: Please manually remove previous version of this application if you had it installed, because since this version the application is installed in the local User's folder and the installation process doesn't require admin rights.
  • Changelog:
  • Use svg icons instead of png
  • Install the application to %AppData% instead of %ProgramFiles%. Admin rights are not needed for the installation.
  • Show locking information in alphabetical order
  • Bugfix: in some situation extra locking information related to another folder was shown.
  • Bugfix: processing of locking information was done several times, decreasing the performance.