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Wondering how to delete a locked file on Windows? All you need is the right tool.
Get access to locked files, unlock them, manage them, change their location, or remove them from your system if needed with this easy and helpful tool. Locked Files Manager is a very helpful tool to have on board as it will make data management on your PC much more efficient.
What Does Locked Files Manager Do?
It is Auslogics BoostSpeed’s tool that lets you look through the files that are locked by the system or by applications and provides the option to unlock a locked file if, for some reason, you need to do something with it: move it, remove it, etc.
Issue: if you have files that have been locked by the system or by one of the apps on your computer, you may find it very difficult to manage these files in any way. For instance, activities like moving or removing these files will be out of your reach, and this may be quite limiting. So, how to remove a locked file?
Solution: if you need to do something with a locked file, you will need to stop the process or app that’s locking it, which is exactly what Locked Files Manager will help you do.
How to unlock a file in Windows using Locked Files Manager?
Activating Locked Files Manager in Auslogics BoostSpeed is really easy. All you need to do to use the tool is this:
- Download and install Auslogics BoostSpeed if you haven’t already.
- Open the program.
- Click the All Tools tab and look for Locked Files Manager under Info Tools.
- Clicking on the tool will open a new tab with the Locked Files option selected in the left-side menu.
- Select a file from the list to see details about it.
- Click the File Properties link above the list to see even more info on the file.
- Click the ‘Unlock File’ link above the list to unlock the selected file.
There you go — you have now successfully unlocked a locked file and can now perform various actions with locked files on Windows, including deleting them from your system, moving them to a different location, and more.
Why Use Locked Files Manager?
Locked Files Manager is one of the tools available on Auslogics BoostSpeed. Auslogics BoostSpeed is a specialized program that improves the performance of your PC by freeing lots of hard disk space without expensive hardware upgrades. What the software does is remove unneeded system and user temporary files (such as web browser cache, unused logs, leftover Windows Update files, temporary Sun Java files, unneeded Microsoft Office cache, and a lot more). As a result, your computer runs faster and you won’t need to spend lots of time managing that manually.
Locked Files Manager is one of the many useful features of Auslogics BoostSpeed (like Manual Internet Optimizer and other tools).
Efficient data management
Locked files are generally very difficult to manage as you won’t be able to open them, move them or delete them from your system. Locked Files Manager does a great job of handling locked files on your system and opens up your options. Now you know how to unlock a folder in Windows (or any file, including .pdf documents).
Easy to use
Locked Files Manager is a very straightforward tool, and you won’t have to spend time figuring things out. Simply choose the files you want to unlock, click Unlock, and you are done.
Saves you time
Instead of searching for ways to handle locked files on your PC, you can solve the problem with one simple tool that will let you manage locked file folders and locked files on Windows.
There you have it. You now know how to handle locked files on Windows. As mentioned above, Locked Files Manager is just one of the many tools that come with Auslogics BoostSpeed, a program designed to optimize your PC for maximum efficiency.