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    <p>I know this has been discussed a lot of time, but their answers did not help me.</p> <p>When I build the project it gives the following error:</p> <blockquote> <p>The process cannot access the file '..\MyProjectFolder\obj\x86\Release\MyProject.exe' because it is being used by another process.</p> </blockquote> <p>What I've tried so far:</p> <ol> <li>Closed Visual Studio 2010, and opened it again.</li> <li>Opened task manager (as administrator), no process running, named "MyProject.exe"</li> <li>Run SysInternals\handles.exe (as administrator again), there is no application having a handle to MyProject.exe. (strange!)</li> <li>Run SysInternals\ProcessExplorer.exe, searched the process name, no handle. (how come!)</li> <li>Killed the explorer.exe, and re-run. No luck.</li> <li>Tried to delete the file manually, from command line. Same error (being used by another process).</li> <li>Logged out and logged in, still the same issue.</li> <li>Restarted the machine, yes it works, but not the desired answer :).</li> </ol> <p>I'm really wondering the reason behind. This is the second time I experience this, I don't want to restart the machine again.</p> <p>All aside, how come ProcessExplorer.exe or handles.exe not show the handle! I lost my faith..</p> <p>Something very similar is discussed in the following links (even more!), but none of them helped me (or maybe I couldn't find the right one):</p> <ol> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10196924/run-visual-studio-debug-the-process-cannot-access-the-file-because-it-is-being">Run Visual Studio Debug. The process cannot access the file, because it is being used by another process</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7995493/visual-studio-cannot-build-a-simple-project-more-than-once">Visual Studio - Cannot build a simple project more than once</a> </li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2690119/visualstudio2010-debugging-the-process-cannot-access-the-file-because-it-i">VisualStudio2010 Debugging - The process cannot access the file ... because it is being used by another process</a></li> </ol>
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    1. COFor process explorer, make sure you run it like this: "procexp /e" to see all handles & dlls (and ensure you have the latest version).
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    2. COThank you for the tip, still the same.
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    3. COMaybe some antivirus checking things in the back?
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