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I recently started getting this error intermittently when running or building a solution in Visual Studio 2010:

The specified task executable cmd.exe could not be run. The process cannot access the file 'c:\temp\etc' because it is being used by another process.

There are similar problems reported elsewhere, due to things like two projects building to the same folder, or anti-virus issues, but none of them are the problem in this case. I've reduced the solution to a single project and it still happens.

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  • Changing the TMP environment variable worked for me, see answers elsewhere Commented Mar 7, 2019 at 22:01

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It turns out that the problem was a service my employer recently installed, called AppSense Application Manager Agent, which is designed to limit my access to admin-type features on the PC.

Luckily I still have access to the services control panel, and disabling the service fixed the problem.

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I had the same problem in Visual Studio 2010 after restaring my VDI. I couldn't build a project of ASP.NET MVC 3 application type. The error pointed to NuGet.targets file, but in details it was written that there is some locked file in 'C:\temp\...'. So I found your post and AppSense Application Manager Agent in services. I stopped it, disabled and it worked! You saved my time. Thank you!
I had to do the same- VS2015
.... I've been trying to find the answer to this issue for days. THANK YOU

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