If you canceled that dialog box, that would not have locked the file. It is most likely locked because it is in use by a virtual machine or is mounted to the physical host. Though it is technically a third-party product, Process Explorer from Sysinternals (), is a tool that is used by many, many Windows system administrators. Mark Russinovich, the author of this utility, is now one of the major software brains of Microsoft, though he was an independent consultant at the time he wrote the utility. This utility will enable you to see which process has the file open. I have a similar problem and again it is to do with Hyper v. Something has gone wrong in one of the VMs and I want to remove the files from the VM config and the VMs folder and start again.

I get the same message as you if I try to delete them. This is crazy they are using up disc space that I need. The only positive thing I've done about it so far is to back everything up to another drive so the worst case is I'm back where I am now. The file structures/trees for VMs just seem very complicated and interlinked as well as this stupidity about it being open in system. I have a similar problem and again it is to do with Hyper v. Something has gone wrong in one of the VMs and I want to remove the files from the VM config and the VMs folder and start again. Try stopping the VMM service on your Hyper-V host and then restarting it.

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Stopping and starting this service in no way affects the running VMs, that is, your other VMs continue to run just fine while the VMM service is stopped. I've seen things like this happen when I've accidentally munged a file..: .: . Well, the same thing happened to me!

LuisFF gets us one step closer: if you actually open the System Tools, you will see that when you accidentally double-clicked the VHD (like I did, and like the REST OF THE WORLD is doing [apparently]), it also creates an additional 'F$' share (or whatever drive it happens to grab for the VHD that it mounted and brought on-line). 1) Take the drive off-line via the servers Disk Management 2) Go to Computer Management, Shares, and UN-share any of those '$' shares that got inadvertently created 3) Stop/start VMM service (this did NOT help, btw) 4) Stop/start the 'server service' and that also did not help I'm guessing shadow copy or some other 'protection service' maybe got hold of the shares/volumes while they were mounted? Any further ideas/thoughts, short of rebooting? Wouldn't it make sense to place it in the server manager / shares section? I mean, second to creating or finding a share, isn't this what most users would be after? For like 20 years we've been trained to right click to find stuff Microsoft is hiding, and right click don't do nothin' here.

You gotta go hunting under tools. Or, forget the new half-baked interface with half of what you need and go old school, direct to Start - Computer.Right Click. That doesn't exist anymore. Drool..drool..Find that hiding, blinking start button in a RDP session, click start after three trys, and TYPE IN 'Computer Management'. Right Click, Pin it to your desktop, pin it to the start screen, pin it to the taskbar, send it to OneNote, and upload it to skydrive so you can find it again, then get back to what you were doing.to find the cottin' pickin open files and kick your users off so you can have your way with the server. I ran into a similar situation. Ended up detaching the VHD via Computer Management Disk Management Right click on the disk that has a blue icon and select detach.