Handle

What is it?

Handle is a PowerShell wrapper for Handle.exe, a Sysinternals tool for finding and closing locked files.

The available commands:

• Install-SysInternals
• Get-LockedFiles
• Close-LockedFiles

How to use it:

Installing SysInternals

Installing the SysInternals tools can be done with the cmdlet Install-SysInternals. This uses Chocolatey to handle the install, so you will need to have Chocolatey installed on your machine or it won't work

Install-SysInternals

Finding locked files

Finding locked files can be done with the cmdlet Get-LockedFiles

Get-LockedFiles -Path 'C:\TestPath'

Closing locked files

To close these locked files, you can either pipe the results of the previous command into Close-LockedFiles, or just provide it any path

Get-LockedFiles -Path 'C:\TestPath' | Close-LockedFiles

OR

Close-LockedFiles -Path 'C:\TestPath'