Comments on: File in use, The action can’t be completed because the file is open in another program https://www.thewindowsclub.com/action-cant-be-completed-because-file-is-open TheWindowsClub covers authentic Windows 11, Windows 10 tips, tutorials, how-to's, features, freeware. Created by Anand Khanse, MVP. Sun, 07 Dec 2025 05:38:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: john https://www.thewindowsclub.com/action-cant-be-completed-because-file-is-open#comment-63080 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:56:00 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=93470#comment-63080 switch to linux

]]> By: lostvyking https://www.thewindowsclub.com/action-cant-be-completed-because-file-is-open#comment-62863 Sat, 24 Feb 2018 00:09:00 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=93470#comment-62863 This should never EVER be this difficult.

]]> By: BeaveVillage https://www.thewindowsclub.com/action-cant-be-completed-because-file-is-open#comment-60392 Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:20:00 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=93470#comment-60392 Turns out all I had to do was right click the ISO, mount it, and then right click the virtual drive in Explorer and choose ‘eject’. File deleted successfully.

]]> By: rufous https://www.thewindowsclub.com/action-cant-be-completed-because-file-is-open#comment-60187 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 04:52:00 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=93470#comment-60187 Totally worthless advice. That option was not “enabled” at all.

]]> By: Moosa Karim https://www.thewindowsclub.com/action-cant-be-completed-because-file-is-open#comment-59619 Tue, 06 Jun 2017 06:52:00 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=93470#comment-59619 Above did not work for me. I had to close outlook to delete the folder. I had previously saved a file from outlook to that folder.

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