Possible to force file lock release?

Is there any way to force the JVM to release a lock on a certain file?
I am reading from a BufferedReader wrapped around a FileReader. At some point, an IOException is thrown (I'm reading a file that is being written by another process, and occaisonally this will happen, but I'm handling it so it doesn't really bother me). When this happens, I can not call reader.close(), the lock never gets released, and I can never delete the file I was reading from.
So I'm wondering if there is some way to force it to be unlocked. Ideally a static method like
FileLock.releaseLock(File pleaseReleaseMeLetMeGo)
?????

Well, I do call it, but I'm sure it is throwing an exception (I have a try/catch around just that one call in the IOException handler).
I'm doing this on windows. The only solution I can come up with so far is to launch a separate Java process to shutdown the current process and then delete the file and restart the process in question (it needs to be running continuously). This seems like a really dirty hack though and unnecessarily complicates the program.
Also, it may be possible to open the file I want to delete for writing. I don't really have to delete it, I just want to overwrite what's in it. Sometimes it seems that Java will let you re-write a file even though it won't let you delete it...

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