New Tool: Delete files in use and Windows protected files
January 5th, 2008 by 
mb
I thought I would share a tool I had developed a while back as part of my Windows lockdown procedure. Deleting files that are in use and particularly WFP-protected files can be a pain and the methods vary with each version of Windows.
X-Out is a simple utility that makes the process more consistent by deleting files using a native application that runs very early in the Windows boot process (the same place where autochk runs). At this point there are no file
permissions or applications to get in the way. Even Windows won’t stop you from deleting the files you want.
When Windows starts, it will see that those files are not there and therefore will not configure WFP to monitor those files.
You can download X-Out here.
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