Re: handle occupied
* George:
Thanks Alf,
I also find this command from Windows Server 2003, under Windows\System32.
From your experience, any pros and cons compared with openfiles and
ProcessExplorer?
openfiles is available on any Windows XP system. And on Win2K or NT4 you would
use the Resource Kit "oh.exe" tool. Which apparently was the starting point for
the Windows XP COBOLified openfiles (I think Microsoft must have hired some
COBOL-influenced idiot manager, cause the same COBOLifization in e.g. wmic and
other Windows XP commands, as well as in the Monad command interpreter).
Generally if you can do something with standard programs it's ungood to learn to
rely on some third-party program.
It can however be a good idea to use third-party programs for the additional
functionality they offer (which is not the case here), or for convenience (which
is not the case here), or for reliability (which *can* be the case here).
Cheers, & hth.,
- Alf
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