If you cannot delete a file or a folder on an NTFS file system volume in Windows, follow the solutions mentioned in this post to resolve the issue.

Whenever you try to delete the file, you may see the following message appear: This action can’t be completed because the file is currently in use by (or open in) File Explorer.

Jugalkumar Kshirsagar asked how to delete a file that Windows insists is open. For reasons that should be obvious, Windows can’t delete a file—or move one—if it’s in use by a program.