How do I make Windows file-locking more like UNIX file-locking?

Question

UNIX file-locking is dead-easy: The operating system assumes that you know what you are doing and lets you do what you want:

For example, if you try to delete a file

Answer 1

That doesn't really help if the hung process still has the handle open. It won't release the resources until that hung process releases the handle. But anyway, in Windows it is possible to force close a file out from under a process that's using it. Process Explorer from sysinternals.com will let you look at and close handles that a process has open.