Vista - Kill process

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.

Kill it through Task Manager. Right click on the process and choose "Kill
Process Tree".

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"Ristar" <Ristar@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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sorry to but in but I am having a similar problem trying to end process on
wmp.exe it will end but then it keeps popping off and on in my list, and I'm
wondering if this is what is causing my PC to hang in shutting down screen?

"Ristar" wrote:

Hi, Ristar.

An "elevated prompt" means entering the command or starting the application
from the "Administrator:Command Prompt" window. That's the Administrator
version of what some of us old-timers still call a "DOS window".

To open that window, right-click on Cmd.exe and choose Run as Administrator;
you'll have to furnish the password to get past here. When the window
opens, note the word "Administrator" in the Title Bar. Any command or
application launched from this window will "run elevated"; it usually will
automatically Run as Administrator without further password prompts.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@xxxxxx
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

"Ristar" <Ristar@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Try the KB article below, use the kill tool. Run it elevated.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197155

"crushablemeg" wrote:

ah... where's the kill tool? i cant find any downloads and "kill.exe" doesnt
exist in my system.

In addition, what resource kit is the article talking about? there's no
downloads and i cannot find "kill" and "pview".. and have totally no idea how
to use "at". ><


"Jeremy Viegas" wrote:

=?Utf-8?B?UmlzdGFy?= <Ristar@xxxxxx> wrote in
news:07EFC2F3-5492-41A9-B78D-A252C8AAD4D1@xxxxxx:

That page has the following info:

APPLIES TO
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
• Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
• Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition


If you are running Vista....it ain't mentioned. :-)

yeah... that confused me for a little while. especially after i read posts
from some geeks in other forums where they talk about XP, 2k, NT and stuff
that makes them sound like they arent communicating in English.

since this is a Vista forum, i thought that thing URL may apply to Vista
too, even though its not on the list.


oh well, nvm. thanks for clearing up anyway.

"propman" wrote:

Hi Ristar,

Have you sorted this problem? I have the same issue with killing Counter-Strike on my vista. And it's so annoying! Have to reset my hardware to sort this out.

Does anyone have the same problem? MS guys have you heard about that?

Thanks,
Ivan

PS has found link on the reported issue, please press "I Agree" to vote for it
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com....vista.general