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[โ€“] 156 points 1 year ago (16 children)

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

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  • [โ€“] 105 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Instructions unclear, I shot my gaming rig with a 6 bore shotgunโ€ฆ. And then set it on fire.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year 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.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year 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.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 1 year 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.

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