The action cannot be completed because the file is open in another program

Hi All,

One more troubleshooting utility I found today, which I would like to share with you. sometimes we face this problem that we are not able to delete the files, it shows one pop-up saying that "The action cannot be completed because the file is open in another program."
This happens because some other application has lock on this, so to remove there is free utility available called "Unlocker".
                 You just need to right click on the file and click on Unlocker option. There the file will be shown as processes, just select and click on "Unlock". Thats it. Now your file is ready to delete. ;)

Remove Write Protection from external Hard disk

Hi All,

Sometimes you face the problem that when you try to remove few files or directories from your external hard-disk, it says that if you want to modify it, please remove write protection from external hard disk. So here is the simple solution, I also found it on some discussion forum.
Step 1. Start -> Run -> regedit.exe
Step 2. Go to
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\StorageDevicePolicies
If StorageDevicePolicies is not there then create a new key. 
Step 3. Now Click on StorageDevicePolicies and on the right-hand side there should be a DWORD value labelled "WriteProtect".
Step 4. Do the same with the following two locations (creating any non-existent keys/values along the way):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control

I hope this will help.