Re: ODBC Installation error

Posted in 1999

Martie Parten — Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:52:08 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

You can go to http://www.sysinternals.com and get the utility there to monitor what files are opened by what processes. (They have tons of other nifty utilities for NT and '95 also) HTH, Martie Cardwell Lori B wrote: > > I am trying to install an ODBC driver for Informix on an NT workstation. I > have done this several times before on other workstations, and had much > better success. It seems something has a hold over the file <msvcrt.dll>, > therefore the installation process is unable to write to this file. Does > anyone know of a way to tell which application is locking this file? I have > nothing running, I checked the task menu. I disabled all appls in the > services that I felt may be the culprit, but still get the same error "file > is locked by windows". > > any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Tks, Lo