In case anyone is interested, there's a powertoy called file locksmith that will show what's using it and let you kill it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/file-locksmith

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Now the question is if I can install it on my work computer without IT getting pissy

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 10 hours ago

Powertoys seems to be the only thing keeping windows somewhat usable, I have no idea why they don't include it in the build.

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

You can use the built-in tool resmon.exe to do the same

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 96 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

"Time to see who's stopping me from deleting this file... svchost??? Goddamn it!"

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm in this picture and I don't like it. I was trying to diagnose a prod server crashing this very Wednesday and seeing the lines of svchost.exe is so fucking maddening... I'm glad ProcessExplorer was there to give some useful fucking info, at least.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 7 points 8 hours ago

Well, it could be an executable disguising itself as svchost. Pretty common for malware or video game cheats to name their executables svchost.exe to hide from anti-virus/anticheat

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 43 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

just kill it

[–] youngalfred@lemmy.zip 53 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear, I shot my gaming rig with a 6 bore shotgun…. And then set it on fire.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 13 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Instructions may have been unclear, but you got the gist of it.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago

Hole-y and on fire:

"This program is preventing Windows from shutting down:"

[–] WR5@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

He's a little confused, but he's got the spirit.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

I used to, all the time

This was in the XP days so I didn't know how to figure out which service it was, I was a kid. But some svchost process would manifest as a task to switch to in the alt + tab switcher and made the computer slow and weird. I just killed it. No idea if it was a bug or a virus.

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 13 points 11 hours ago

Probably the indexing service, it's always the indexing service.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 15 points 11 hours ago

I discovered powertoys only recently, and it's a pretty cool set of tools. From color picker, tiling window manager to regex file renames or copy/paste tools, it has a lot of QoL features.

If you have to be on windows, i.e due ro work, I recommend not sleeping on it.

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 4 points 10 hours ago

The performance view thing that comes with windows also allows searching for file handles but it's not very user friendly. Also not possible without admin rights if I remember correctly

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Why isn't this in their OS instead of unwanted AI