🤦🏻 👨🏻‍⚕️ 👨‍🏭 Computers and software. The file is occupied by another program: what to do 🧚🏽 👵🏻 📓

It's no secret that on Windows systems programs can use some files at the same time. As a rule, this applies to system components, and when you open an application to which such a file is associated, or when you try to delete Windows, it informs the user that the system or user file is occupied by another program. What to do? This game, a torrent application, or even a regular office editor, doesn’t matter. The essence of the problem does not change from this. But let's see what can be done in such a situation.

File is in use by another program: what does it mean

Actually, the essence of the issue is that a certain component currently uses not one, but two or more applications. In particular, this applies not only to running user programs, but also to system services running in the background.