hey geeks Tim Tibbets with major geeks
comma today we're gonna take a look at
unlocker we're going to look at a few
things here it's ad-supported it is not
at the time I did this video Windows 10
was not supported we're going to test it
under Windows 10 spoiler alert it works
and we're going to give you a little
warning here so you don't have any
problems basically this program will
unlock files that are somehow locked you
can't access them or delete them a
little bit more for advanced users you
don't want to start randomly deleting
and unlocking files in Windows that are
locked for good reason to protect your
operating system as you install it you
will get the Delta toolbar offer click
advanced click where it says or uncheck
install Delta toolbar hit next
I would not bother with this because it
hasn't been updated in three years so
you don't really want this thing
checking for updates every day or every
week the Explorer extension I don't
think anybody needs that that would be
under your right-click it would add an
extension here unless you're locking
files all the time so now the biggest
thing with this program you need to know
is it's not the most intuitive program
going it works excellent it's one of the
best unlock errs out there but it can be
a little bit finicky so I'll show you a
little bit why once you get it started
it's not real clear on what it does so
let's go into let's say Program Files so
you get a good understanding your best
bet here would probably be to have
Windows Explorer open parallel but for
now we'll just show you how it works
you can get your process you can get
your path most of the stuff is going to
be difficult to unlock because of
Windows but you could take let's say
runtime broker with something you wanted
to you could kill the process you could
unlock it or if you use your shift and
arrow key you could actually select a
whole bunch of files if you click kill
process doesn't tell you what it did so
you have to assume that it killed the
process there is no right-click option
so everything you need is down here
whether it's kill the process unlock
unlock all or take connection which is
usually delete when applicable rename
move or copy if you want to back it up
so I'm not going to do too much too
in here as you can see it's pretty
simple to use however let's say I have a
file and a folder that I know I want to
lock let's close it because once again
it has no real interface it doesn't
allow me to just go hey let's start
looking again and we'll go to the
desktop you have a sample video here in
MKV format we will go to my desktop we
will tell it that's the folder I want to
look at and it's going to see if there's
any problems in there as you can see it
says there is no problem here there's no
locking handle but it can help you
delete it now as I showed you earlier
what you should get under your action is
delete rename remove you would add the
same things you saw on the other one if
this file was locked kill the process
that would take care of being able to
unlock it hopefully so in this case you
can see we could just walk away or hit
delete once again it's a totally
different simplified interface than it
is when we're looking at a complete
folder so let's click OK and as you can
see it's gone now unlocker once again
closed you have to start all over again
depending what you want to do then I
have these problems this has happened
and I think I'm gonna take 9 this
happened before all of a sudden
everything's gone so while it works in
Windows 10 it's a little buggy whether
it does this stuff in Windows 8 and all
that I don't know but it's one of those
programs that works so well that these
little tiny bugs that you get are
probably worth the hassle if you've got
a locked file or folder so I would be
willing to bet you if I rebooted my
operating system right here that this
would come back and be just fine so
there you go program is totally free
once again watch out for the add support
it's not too hard to avoid it but if
you've got an unlock file folder it'd be
hard-pressed to find another program
that works as well oh give her a shot
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