The image isn't mounted by one of those ISO mounting programs. I checked the permissions, and System, Administrators, and Magnetite (me), all have full control of the file.
I'll try the CD burning thing, but if that doesn't work I'm not going to worry about it.
Nope, I burned it to a CD, canceled halfway, then tried it again. Still said that the file is in use by system. The firewall doesn't list the file nor is the anti-virus using it.
Just wanted to post a solution I found when having the same problem. I went through the same steps as you, booted to safe mode, tried unlocker and lockhunter, etc.
Even without any image mounting software running, including the process list, the MagicISO program I was using had a virtual drive listed in the device manager. After disabling this drive windows finally allowed me to delete the files.
Confirmed to work on two different Win7 64 computers, Ultimate and Premium.
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaank you FUMBLES
you sort it out :)
it was magic iso program and should disable all the drives
thank you aloooooooooooooooot
Had the very same issue with an .ISO file...
I couldn't trash the file (I got a similar message saying it was in use by System); but somehow I was still able to change the extension to something different... then delete the file without problems.
I had a similar problem just now with a half-downloaded .iso file. I had DaemonTools Lite set up to auto-associate .iso files, and the download stopped halfway through and wouldn't resume, and I got this error anytime I tried to screw with it. After reading this thread I was able to delete the file after removing all of my virtual drives in DT.
So yeah, if you have a virtual drive manager program and you get this, try deleting or disabling your virtual drives. You can always re-enable them later after the offending piece of data is in the recycle bin where it belongs.
Glad this helped a couple people but going through EVERY one of those steps and still coming up dry...
Please help :c
If you are using image mounting software, even if the program does not appear to be running (such as Daemon Tools etc.) Open the program and make sure that the file which you can't delete isn't mounted to any drives. For instance, the same thing happened to me and I could not delete an ISO until I opened Daemon Tools and clicked the unmount all drives button, which solved the issue.
(Even if your mounting software does not show any files to be mounted click the button anyway, mine did not show anything to be mounted, but the ISO was mounted nonetheless.)
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