Kalum Umesh

If you manage a Windows XP peer-to-peer network, you regularly need to be able to find out who is remotely using files on a particular system. This task probably makes you wish that Windows XP contained an updated version of Net Watcher—that's the neat utility in Windows 98 that showed you what files were open and who was using them.
Unfortunately, Net Watcher never made it to the newer versions of the Windows operating system. However, newer versions of the Windows operating system does come with a command-line tool called Openfiles.exe that performs the same function (even though it's not quite as snazzy as its GUI predecessor).
To use Openfiles, all you have to do is open a Command Prompt window and type:
Openfiles [/parameter]
where /parameter is one of three settings that you can use to configure Openfiles:

• /Disconnect: Disconnects one or more open files.
• /Query: Displays files opened locally or from shared folders.
• /Local: Enables/disables the display of local open files.