You know theirs been a lot of things in the past that didn’t make sense like errors on windows are so damn cryptic and well useless. I mean come on I’m a computer technician that deals with this stuff on a daily basis, I help customers every day overcome weird cryptic errors. I mean why does a blue screen have to refer to 0×2134942857 instead of a DLL reference, a suggestion, and maybe a little stack trace or line number for Microsoft to reference and fix the problem. Well it’s been forever since the first BSOD error, and other types of windows errors.
Well theirs another error that pissed everyone off including me “The file you are trying to access is in use” and a Button that says try again that never ever works. Your forced to cancel, or use a third party program to figure out what program is using it, or the most common solution used… reboot the entire computer just to erase/move the 1 file. Well in a move that’s about as big as a “why the hell didn’t we think of that sooner” as must have been when disposable diapers first came to parents who used those funky cloth diapers and all the poopy diaper cleaning parents. Microsoft’s latest beta of Windows 7 has revealed one of the most wonderful new features ever, now when you move/delete or modify a file thats in use, instead of a useless error message, you get a MUCH more useful error message and the little tweak that actually shows what program currently has the files locked!
Spectacular move Microsoft, hell even if Windows 7 wasn’t 100s of times better than Vista this feature alone might have been enough to get me to upgrade, well lucky for me then that it’s got all those awesome niceties, but this is definitely a great positive. :)
Source: LifeHacker
