WhoLocks
find file-locking processes and close them.
Details
- External ID
- 1250885
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- WhoLocks
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Description
Can’t delete a file or folder because Windows says it’s in use? WhoLocks helps you find the process holding it open and end that process when needed.
Enrichment
- Theme
- system maintenance and file utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- file unlocker utility for terminating locking processes
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A small native Windows utility querying the Windows Restart Manager API (RmGetList) or handles via NtQuerySystemInformation can be readily created using standard AI coding assistance.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 63 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #37 of 64 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.
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- OpenWithGuard · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Dupely · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- win-plus-leave · github · 2026-09-24 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Easy Disk · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Who Sweeps · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- NestKeeper · ph · 2026-09-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- diskr · github · 2026-09-26 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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