Vista - Kill process

I am facing the same issue it is not only Fireofox also with Chrome and safari ... but some how opera is working OK for me .... still killing process doesn't work for me too....are you on 64 bit vista with zonelarm as firewall .? I have started facing this issue after installing zone alarm firewall on 64 bit vista... before that firefox was working fine for me....please let us know if you find the solution...



Rista wrote:

Kill process
20-Aug-08

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.

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I have also encountered some processes (not system and not protected) that I could not kill. I have tried many solutions and neither of them worked:
- "End Process" and "End Process Tree" in Task Manager,
- taskkill.exe /IM <process name> /F (with elevated rights; it returned success, but process was not killed),
- pskill.exe with and without -t switch (also returned success),
- killing in Process Explorer,
- "Get-Process <process name> | Stop-Process" in Powershell,
- "Kill()" method "System.Diagnostics.Process" (.NET),
- session logout (on Server 2008).

The only working solution was hard-reset of PC.

One thing that was common for non-killable processes was that their main thread was in waiting state and waiting reason was LPCReply. I think that maybe Vista has a bug in new ALPC mechanism... but I am not sure.

I have observed similar behavior both in Vista (x64) and Server 2008 EE (x64).