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Sharing Violation - Executable Won't Stop
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From
14/12/2006 19:31:55
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
To
14/12/2006 19:24:44
Mike Smith
Doncaster Office Services
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8
OS:
Windows 2000 SP2
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01177842
Message ID:
01177845
Views:
20
>I am having a wierd problem with updating an executable with a new executable.
>
>It appears that the .exe in the user file is still active even after he has quit from the program and returned to the desktop. I can tell this is the case because I am unable to delete the .exe with the Windows Explorer.
>
>I get a message that "Access is denied, Source File may be in use."
>
>How do I stop this executable?
>
>Mike Smith

Restarting the user machine. It seems that sometimes Windows keeps locks until the user restarts.

I don't know of any other method to unlock the file.
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