Under which circumstances does the System process (PID 4) retain an open file handle?

Question

My application running on a Windows server makes use of a Jet/Access database. For some reasons around every two weeks that database file gets locked by the System process (

Answer 1

This sounds to me like a driver-level issue with a leaky handle.

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