marinebio72

sadly, I can confirm that this travesty of a problem persists right into
windows 7. If the process hangs, there is often NOTHING you can do to
stop it other than rebooting, and frequently, that means holding down
the power button because it won't initiate the shutdown proceedure with
the hung program. to the absolute moron above (a few posts), to assume
that it is a lack of knowledge that causes this problem... idiot. the
taskkill command "succeeds" and does nothing. the task manager does
nothing. you are stuck with an unresponsive program, and evidently even
logging out and back in doesn't allow you to reload the program in
question. it is no longer an "active" process, but you get an error
when you attempt to reload it.

and the person that started this thread at least is not talking about
system processes. it is 3rd party stuff like firefox (which is
currently hung in my case).