Strange, I have never found a hung process that I can not kill off.
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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
"Ristar" <Ristar@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> OBVIOUSLY, this doesnt work. heh.
>
> even in XP, and for running programs (the programs that Vista actually
> lets
> me kill) using process explorer or taskkill produces a more immediate
> effect
> than using task manager, which
>
> "Richard Urban" wrote:
> Quote:
>> Kill it through Task Manager. Right click on the process and choose "Kill
>> Process Tree".
>>
>> --
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows Desktop Experience
>>
>>
>> "Ristar" <Ristar@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:03147F2F-8168-4129-9623-5C54D4BAC1D6@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > how do i kill a process that froze? ie. Firefox, IE, and all that, that
>> > are
>> > not responding?
>> >
>> > so far, i have tried "taskkill /im <pid>", and process explorer.
>> >
>> > taskkill always returns a message telling me that a kill command has
>> > been
>> > sent, but the process is still not killed.
>> >
>> > process explorer, no matter how many times i try killing it, the
>> > process
>> > still wont be killed.
>> >
>> > seriously, this inability to kill processes that are frozen is getting
>> > really, really irritating.
>>
>>