Windows says your file is in use because it's open in another program? Learn how to force rename, delete, or move the file.

Cannot rename file on Desktop? File Name too long? Action cannot be completed because the file is open in another program? Access is denied in OneDrive? Here's the fix!

If you go on to rename it, you may see an error: File In Use, The action cannot be completed because the file is open in COM Surrogate. The message will suggest you close the file and try again.

When you double-click a file on your Mac, the operating system will automatically open the file using the program assigned to that type of file. It is possible, though, to open the file using ...

Jugalkumar Kshirsagar asked how to delete a file that Windows insists is open. For reasons that should be obvious, Windows can’t delete a file—or move one—if it’s in use by a program. The ...

When you open files that have a particular file extension, Windows will look at its configuration to determine what the default program should be in order to work with these files. The default ...

When working with files (especially when downloading stuff from the web using my web browser), I quite often keep downloaded .zip, .rar, etc files on my Desktop. Quite often I keep running into a ...

The file might be in use or open in another program, or the folder might be read-only.” I’m stumped! I would prefer to perform these/this operation in Explorer andnot in photo viewer (s).