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vista kill process

  • 23-04-2009 10:25pm
    #1
    DonnieBrasco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Anyone else have problems killing processes in windows vista?

    From taskmanager or TASKKILL /F or any other "utilities"

    cheers,
    db


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    are you running as administrator


  • #3
    DonnieBrasco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭DonnieBrasco


    yeah running as administrator.

    have all the latest updates.

    sometimes firefox wont die and sometimes its other processes like btornt.... sometimes its games.... sometimes iexplorer.

    never ever had this problem with xp

    bags of ram... bags of process or power... the machine is well equipt !

    when i use taskkill /f - it reports that it has terminated the process... but its still there... if i run taskkill again... it reports its just terminated the same process id... but its still there. some apps wont open if they appear to be already running

    the only solution i have found so far is to reboot


  • #4
    clint_silver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭clint_silver


    procexp?

    never fails except for system required programs.

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx


  • #5
    DonnieBrasco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭DonnieBrasco


    hi,
    tried process explorer, its seems to have a similar problem. it looks like its killing the process, but it doesnt.
    see attached image (have admin privs)

    seems really odd that there seems to be no way of killing this off without rebooting


  • #6
    clint_silver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭clint_silver


    so from procexp when you kill the process, are you saying that nothing happens, it just stays there?

    hhmmmm, very unusual, ok, lets go a bit deeper. In procexp, double click the firefox process. One of the panes is called Threads. Any thread that the FF process has opened can be individually killed. Start at the top and try and isolate. If a thread cant be killed it should say, if we can identify which one then we might be able to find out what it is.


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  • #7
    DonnieBrasco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭DonnieBrasco


    clint_silver wrote: »
    so from procexp when you kill the process, are you saying that nothing happens, it just stays there?

    hhmmmm, very unusual, ok, lets go a bit deeper. In procexp, double click the firefox process. One of the panes is called Threads. Any thread that the FF process has opened can be individually killed. Start at the top and try and isolate. If a thread cant be killed it should say, if we can identify which one then we might be able to find out what it is.

    when i choose to kill the process or process tree, no message appears and the process remains.
    in the screen shot of TASKKILL it shows a message saying "process ... terminated" but really it hasnt.

    i'll dig deeper with the thread stuff next time it hangs


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