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More to the point, you can't kill a .DLL (shell extension) that has been loaded into a process (Explorer.exe), until the process lets go of its references to the .DLL.
The only time that happens is when the process goes dies or, under .NET, you kill the AppDomain that holds the reference.
Since Explorer.exe isn't a .NET process... well, your only choice is to kill the process or reboot the machine and let "pending file op's" take care of it.
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I'm sorry I harshed your rant! 
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: I'm sorry I harshed your rant!
Cracked me up!
But...never let it happen again! 
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Many a time I've wanted to kill Windows Explorer!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Mike Hankey wrote: Many a time I've wanted to kill Windows Explorer!
Well, then, Notepad++ is your dream come true. 
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I've got it, use it all the time.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Who is responsible?
That's easy, the OS, ergo MS...
That's the way shell extensions work, they are loaded into the explorer Process and therefore are "locked" until the owner process has finished with them.
Don't kill the messenger (Notepad++),
though your idea about shadow copy, copy file, load file, remap memory etc. etc... supported by official API's from the OS to replace shell extensions on the fly... every hackers wet dream if that came out of the box...
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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Phil.Benson wrote: every hackers wet dream if that came out of the box...
It is painful that the hackers make computing so bad. 
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? -> Update Notepad++
Updates the application without uninstalling it. In all the years I've been using it, it's never needed to kill Windows Explorer.
If you're uninstalling it, then it has to uninstall the shell extension, so it has to restart the shell.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That's good to know. The additional challenge for my installation is that I don't have admin rights to my machine so I cannot do install / uninstall. This was actually a special installation process that is initiated under a special admin user. Yeah, it sucks.
I ended up downloading the zip version, dropping it into my own folder and running it from there.
No more need for the official version (which is a few revs back anyways).
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My god, it's full of stars!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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not of this world!
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Are three short gang members a criplet?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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If Shakespeare would have written 'The three little pigs', would he have called them hamlets?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Software Zen: delete this;
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only way to be sure is tri it out
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Trisomy never means something good.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Even the Triads are miniaturised these days! 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Small unwanted emails: spamlets?
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Should they[^], by supply and demand, not be cheaper? And why do they need batteries instead of eating all my grain? At least they can purr or shriek at Klingons.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Wipe them out!
Tribbles are considered mortal enemies of the Klingon Empire! (Worf said so)
Worf further explains that the Empire considered tribbles to be an ecological menace and that many warriors were sent out to kill any and all tribbles that they could find. Once the tribble homeworld was located, a Klingon armada obliterated it. According to Worf, tribbles were considered extinct by the end of the 23rd century, which Odo sarcastically calls "another glorious chapter in Klingon history," and then proceeds to ask Worf mockingly, "Tell me, do they still sing songs about The Great Tribble Hunt?"
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Would that not automatically make them natural allies of the Romulans?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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