> Charles C wrote:
>> I've been assuming (correctly) that this was a known issue and I 
>> haven't worried too much about it, so it's taken me quite a while to 
>> get around to asking or looking into it at all.   Anyway I get:
>>
>> "Failed to save file:
>>
>> The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another 
>> process."
> 
> Whenever I have received that message it was because the file was still 
> open in some other application.
> 
> Try ctrl+alt+delete to see if there's something running in the 
> background which may be using the file.

Or get Sysinternals Process Explorer which is a far more powerful task 
manager, it can actually tell you what files each app has open (and 
search for a filename to see *which* app has it open).

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