EMCO UnLock IT - Release Announcements

Version 3.0.3 is available

Fri, 04 May 2012 12:23:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Added support of Microsoft Windows 8 operating systems

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Version 3.0.2 is available

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:49:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Minor application performance improvements

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

File in use problem happens when trying to open a locked file via the Open dialog

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Version 3.0.1 is available

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:20:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Added support of Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 operating systems
Improved locks detection mechanism

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Version 3.0 is available

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:29:00 GMT

Brand new UI

The user interface has been redesigned to represent information about locks in a simple and compact way and also provide one-click action to unlock a resource. The main form now displays a list of processes that lock a specified file or folder with the detailed information about every process including process name, description and path to executable file. The Unlock Resource button, located on the Ribbon bar allows to perform unlock with just a single mouse click.

Advanced unlock options

When a process, that holds a lock, is selected, you can switch to the Actions page of the Locking Resources contextual page category on the Ribbon Bar and select action that you like to perform. In particular, you can kill selected processes or, if you need to keep them running, just close handles to locked resources that are owned by selected processes.

Closing file handles

This new unlocking method allows closing file handles to locked resource. It allows to unlock a resource with no needs to kill processes that hold locks. It can be used in case, for example, when you need to unlock a file that is opened for modification by some application.

Closing library handles

This new unlocking method can be used when you need to unlock DLL file that is used by running application. It allows to close library handles and doesn't require processes termination.

Intelligent resources unlocking

Having the information about processes that hold locks to resource you can unlock it manually by closing file or library handles, or killing processes. You can use different methods for every locking process. Or using Unlock Resource button you can rely on an automatic procedure. In this case the application tries to unlock resource by closing file and library handles, and prompts you to kill processes only if other unlocking mechanisms have been failed.

Command line interface

Now the application provides a command line interface and allows to check and unlock resources from a command line.

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Version 2.0 is available

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:23:00 GMT

Improved UI

User interface was updated to include latest UI features, available in other EMCO products. In particular, a set of improvements include: updated icons and main style, menus and Ribbon bars.

Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 support

Starting from this version the application becomes compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. Now it can work on these platforms to unlock locked resources. Also application can integrate with Windows Explorer on these platforms to provide context menu action for resources unlocking.

New UI skins

Application comes with an extended set of UI skins. You can customize UI look by selecting one of strict or funny skin though a Skin Chooser.

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Integration with Windows Explorer context menu does not work on Windows Vista and higher
Invalid detection of process owner and owner SID to be shown in process details

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Version 1.7 is available

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:45:00 GMT

Ribbon UI

This version comes with fully reworked Ribbon interface. The new UI uses the same concepts as MS Office 2007 and provides improved context menus, enhanced screen tips, a mini toolbar and keyboard shortcuts that help to improve your efficiency and productivity.

Vista and x64 platforms support

List of supported platforms was extended and now it includes Windows Vista and various x64 platforms. UnLock IT functionality was changed accordingly to support User Account Control (UAC). UAC allows execution with administrative permissions under Vista by default that makes integration into context menu of Windows Explorer a really painless task.

Select a locked Folder button

If you need to unlock locked folder, you can use Select a locked Folder button to browse and pick required folder using visual interface.

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Data in Process Modules list doesn't refreshed when another process selected in Locked by combo-box.
Process information is incorrectly retrieved under Windows 2000.

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