[Python] Could not Install Package due to an OSError - PYTorch with cuda installation

I'm trying to install the Pytorch package with the following line of command:

pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu12


But I'm getting the following error, and I'm unable to resolve it. I did not find any suitable solution, can anyone help?

C:\Users\40003000>pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118 --user
Looking in indexes: https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
Requirement already satisfied: torch in c:\users\40003000\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (2.7.0)
Requirement already satisfied: torchvision in c:\users\40003000\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (0.22.0)
Collecting torchaudio
Using cached https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118/torchaudio-2.7.1%2Bcu118-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl.metadata (6.8 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: filelock in c:\users\40003000\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from torch) (3.18.0)
Requirement already satisfied: typing-extensions>=4.10.0 in c:\users\40003000\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from torch) (4.14.1)
Requirement already satisfied: sympy>=1.13.3 in c:\users\40003000\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from torch) (1.14.0)
Requirement already satisfied: networkx in c:\users\40003000\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from torch) (3.5)
Requirement already satisfied: jinja2 in c:\users\40003000\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from torch) (3.1.6)
Requirement already satisfied: fsspec in c:\users\40003000\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from torch) (2025.3.0)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy in c:\users\40003000\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from torchvision) (2.3.1)
Requirement already satisfied: pillow!=8.3.*,>=5.3.0 in c:\users\40003000\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from torchvision) (11.3.0)
INFO: pip is looking at multiple versions of torchaudio to determine which version is compatible with other requirements. This could take a while.
Using cached https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118/torchaudio-2.7.0%2Bcu118-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl.metadata (6.8 kB)
Collecting torch
Using cached https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118/torch-2.7.0%2Bcu118-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl.metadata (29 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: mpmath<1.4,>=1.1.0 in c:\users\40003000\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from sympy>=1.13.3->torch) (1.3.0)
Requirement already satisfied: MarkupSafe>=2.0 in c:\users\40003000\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from jinja2->torch) (3.0.2)
Downloading https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118/torchaudio-2.7.0%2Bcu118-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl (4.1 MB)
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ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: 'C:\\Users\\40003000\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-unpack-dfsjx2p1\\torchaudio-2.7.0+cu118-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl'
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I'm getting this error for the last 4 days. I tried to do multiple things to solve it but without success. I'm also the administrator of this system. I'm using Python 3.11.

Please let me know if anyone has a solution.

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