IFW Has Found Some "Handles"

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IFW Has Found Some "Handles"

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In the past few times I have needed IFW I start through the menus and at some point I am informed that IFW has discovered open handles being used by some nosey program or other. A couple of times I have just tapped ignore since my image was more a test bed than one I wanted to rely on but I wonder if ignore is the right thing to do? Also how would I find the process that attaches itself to my USB backup drive. I have had this happen at times when the drive had only Terabyte images (IFW) and once when I had stored a Win7 Backup on the drive.
I'm assuming (I know) that IFW wouldn't suggest ignore if it wasn't an acceptable solution but these kinds of things keep me up at night. Any comments?
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Re: IFW Has Found Some "Handles"

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So since I have only recently been getting these "open handles" messages when using IFW from Windows 7 I decided to go back to imaging by using my PE disk. Now I am getting this message about open handles even when using my PE disk. I don't understand. The only thing I can think of is I recently upgraded to v3.26 even with the PE disk. Can anyone suggest what might be giving the appearance of open handles even when running straight from a disk boot up? In the years I have been using IFW I don't remember having gotten this message until after my last IFW update.
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Re: IFW Has Found Some "Handles"

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You should be able to use Process Explorer to find the open handles.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysint ... s-explorer

Note that if you need to run it in x64 WinPE/RE you will need to extract the 64-bit version. When you run the program in Windows it will extract the 64-bit version and you can copy it to another location to save it (the program deletes it when it exits).
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Re: IFW Has Found Some "Handles"

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You can also enable aggressive locking.



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Re: IFW Has Found Some "Handles"

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Okay Thanks. It will take some time to figure out how to run Process Explorer but if I find things I don't understand I will be back.
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Re: IFW Has Found Some "Handles"

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Thankfully, IFW only had this problem about 3 or 4 times. Hopefully, it won't be back.
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It's not a "problem" with IFW, it's that the OS wouldn't lock the drive or
didn't have reference to it for locking. The aggressive lock option in IFW
tells the OS to go ahead and try to lock anyway. If some system piece was
using it (or the OS environment didn't have reference) , it still won't
lock.

"plain" wrote in message news:16785@public.image...

Thankfully, IFW only had this problem about 3 or 4 times. Hopefully, it
won't be back.

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Re: IFW Has Found Some "Handles"

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But when I boot Image For Windows from a CD why would this come up? LOL..I certainly didn't mean to imply IFW had 'problems' like it isn't working right. I was thinking more like 'problems' as in it is encountering difficulties..
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Re: IFW Has Found Some "Handles"

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somehow something is holding a drive handle open at the time it's run.
That would occur if you perhaps added something to the build or accessed a
drive letter / volume. IFW should offer the option to attempt an aggressive
lock even if not enabled when the message shows up.

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But when I boot Image For Windows from a CD why would this come up? LOL..I
certainly didn't mean to imply IFW had 'problems' like it isn't working
right. I was thinking more like 'problems' as in it is encountering
difficulties..

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Re: IFW Has Found Some "Handles"

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Okay Thank You. I've not added anything so it may be I just need to start my image from a power off state and see if that helps. But as I mentioned IFW only encountered this a few times so who knows?
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