By disabling Protected View, and allowing old versions of files to open as normal, you could be exposing your computer to possible security threats. Protected View opens potentially dangerous files, without any security prompts, in a restricted mode, to help minimize harm to your computer. Take care! The Protected View security feature is considered important, as the code used to open and save older file formats may have vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit. This article describes how to change Excel File Block settings to ensure that selected old file types are opened as normal by Excel. Or, if your File Block settings are set to Do not open selected file types, the file won't even open in Protected View, and instead an error message appears. Instead, it either causes the file to open in Protected View, and disables the Save and Open features. When you try to open file types created in previous versions of Office (like an Excel 95 spreadsheet for example), the file will open in Protected View by default, and the editing functions will be disabled.įile Block prevents outdated file types from opening as normal.
I hope this helps somebody else facing similar frustrations.Changing File Block settings to enable old Excel file types to be opened as normal I temporarily stopped the Indexing Service in the Services console, deleted the files without a problem and then restarted the indexing service. If you run it without parameters and output to a text file, you'll get a nice list of every file handle with the details of the process that has it open.įrom this, I found that the (MS) Indexing Service (cidaemon.exe) - used for search in our case - had the files locked. I'm not allowed to post a link to it here apparently, but just Google it - it's in the SysInternals section of Microsoft's Technet site. Rebooting wasn't an option (for this problem).Įventually I found Microsoft's Handle utility.
I knew that the users reported by Excel couldn't really have the files open, so it was driving me mad. Trying lucassix's tip of looking in Open Files in the management console, simply showed some files and folders that I had open, but no other users were shown and the locked files weren't listed.
If I attempted to open the files in Excel (over the network), Excel would report that the file was already in use by some user or other. When attempting to delete them either on the box itself or over the network, I would get 'access denied' messages. xls/.xlsx files on a (Win 2K3/IIS) web server which could not be deleted (but needed to be!). In case anyone else finds this thread via search and it doesn't quite help their specific case, here's another potential solution.
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