Beyond Nuke

Right-click a file, folder or drive and Beyond Nuke closes everything holding it open, then deletes it. It shows you what is holding the target first, refuses the paths that would break Windows, and checks the delete afterwards.

Requirements

• Windows 10 1903 or later, 64 bit

Installing

See Installing a Beyond application for what the installer does and where it puts things. Your computer checks the download for you, and that page also shows how to check it yourself if you would rather.

Features

It finds what is holding the file

Four independent checks, because each one alone misses real locks: open handles, a running program inside the target, a loaded library, and a shell sitting in the folder.

It shows you before it acts

The processes, services and tasks holding the target are listed first. Nothing changes until you confirm, and a dry run changes nothing at all.

It refuses what it must not touch

Drive roots, the Windows folders, user profile folders and a protected list are refused, whether the target is one of them, inside one, or contains one.

It escalates only as far as it must

A plain delete first, then taking ownership, then renaming aside, then queueing for the next restart, stopping as soon as the item is gone.

It checks its own work

Afterwards it reads the disk again and reports the real state. It never claims a delete it did not verify.

Known limits

• It does not use the Recycle Bin. What it deletes cannot be recovered.

Licensing

Beyond Nuke uses the standard Beyond licence: checked on your own machine, with your devices managed by you. See Licences and activation.