Thankfully, if you don't want to wait on it or stress about how to locate it, there are several methods to delete a file in use by another program in Windows 10 and 11 systems. Nearly all of these ...

Learn how to delete residual files, folders, registry keys & traces after uninstalling software on a Windows 11/10 computer.

Windows won't let you delete, move, or rename a file if a program is using it. Frustratingly, it also won't tell you which program is using the file so that you can solve the problem.