Comments on: How To Kill Windows Processes That Won't Die http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html Computer - Internet - Technology Tips And Tutorials Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:05:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: captain http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html#comment-148327 captain Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:30:30 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1316#comment-148327 SO it seems nobody was able to find a solution to this app hunging problem. pskill didn't work for me, neither did taskkill. Although, I guess I would be the first one to tell that I am having a hard time to terminate skype.exe process. Oh, and from what I noticed after having read all the comments from above, is that ppl get really frustrated while looking for the solution to solve this "process hunging" problem. And since apps like pskill turns out to be another failue, they get mad at the author for posting the possible solution that works for some and doesn't for others. WHY? This was just a suggestion, not a promise, wasn't it? so if it didn't work for you just leave it as is, and keep browsing for a solution that would work for you. This is at least how I feel about it.) pskill poster, gj! Keep up the work) SO it seems nobody was able to find a solution to this app hunging problem. pskill didn't work for me, neither did taskkill. Although, I guess I would be the first one to tell that I am having a hard time to terminate skype.exe process. Oh, and from what I noticed after having read all the comments from above, is that ppl get really frustrated while looking for the solution to solve this "process hunging" problem. And since apps like pskill turns out to be another failue, they get mad at the author for posting the possible solution that works for some and doesn't for others. WHY? This was just a suggestion, not a promise, wasn't it? so if it didn't work for you just leave it as is, and keep browsing for a solution that would work for you. This is at least how I feel about it.) pskill poster, gj! Keep up the work)

]]> By: Nicky Beatz http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html#comment-141334 Nicky Beatz Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:58:28 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1316#comment-141334 @<a href="#comment-17408" rel="nofollow">Shane</a>: I have noticed that this happens when it occupies more than 1 GB of ram. When it gets to 1,001,332K of used ram it crashes like that. I have this project were i used just edirol, nexus, idj...nothing else, very known VST`s. i never had problems with them in the last year. Right now with this complex project this keeps happening. i can`t get to finish it! This pskill thing worked once. i reoppened fl studio, it crashed again and can`t pskill it anymore. found any solutions? @Shane:

I have noticed that this happens when it occupies more than 1 GB of ram. When it gets to 1,001,332K of used ram it crashes like that. I have this project were i used just edirol, nexus, idj…nothing else, very known VST`s. i never had problems with them in the last year. Right now with this complex project this keeps happening. i can`t get to finish it! This pskill thing worked once. i reoppened fl studio, it crashed again and can`t pskill it anymore.

found any solutions?

]]> By: IW http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html#comment-137303 IW Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:38:44 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1316#comment-137303 This does not work. Like all the other comments say actually. What did the author of this program have in mind? The program doesn't even check if the process has been killed. It just assumes it has. At least he should put that in his/her updated version. This does not work. Like all the other comments say actually. What did the author of this program have in mind? The program doesn't even check if the process has been killed. It just assumes it has. At least he should put that in his/her updated version.

]]> By: Arne http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html#comment-133853 Arne Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:16:33 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1316#comment-133853 I can confirm that this does NOT work on a Win7 64 bit machine. What a surprise. I can confirm that this does NOT work on a Win7 64 bit machine. What a surprise.

]]> By: nantheman http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html#comment-130116 nantheman Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:30:05 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1316#comment-130116 Doesn't work. Doesn't work.

]]> By: Mark F http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html#comment-125165 Mark F Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:51:32 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1316#comment-125165 Whoever invented this "PSKILL" ........... you suck Whoever invented this "PSKILL" ……….. you suck

]]> By: N/A http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html#comment-117092 N/A Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:55:50 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1316#comment-117092 Well why the heck someone (with enough knowledge) doesn't create an app that can see drivers with queuing I/O request or requests and than the user can recognize(see the manufacturer of the driver and some useful user info) the driver that is faulty and stop it. If it is even possible cause it is obvious that every faild process termination is not just process itself related. Thank You all for understanding and no I do not have the knowledge to make it myself if it is even possible Well why the heck someone (with enough knowledge) doesn't create an app that can see drivers with queuing I/O request or requests and than the user can recognize(see the manufacturer of the driver and some useful user info) the driver that is faulty and stop it. If it is even possible cause it is obvious that every faild process termination is not just process itself related. Thank You all for understanding and no I do not have the knowledge to make it myself if it is even possible

]]> By: Liam http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html#comment-114464 Liam Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:56:25 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1316#comment-114464 Didn't work. Nice article though. Guess I'll need to reboot. Didn't work. Nice article though. Guess I'll need to reboot.

]]> By: Detek http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html#comment-109902 Detek Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:33:24 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1316#comment-109902 It does the same thing that "Kill process" option in task manager. It fails to kill processes that task manager fails to kill. That means this app is useless (on XP Home). It does the same thing that "Kill process" option in task manager. It fails to kill processes that task manager fails to kill. That means this app is useless (on XP Home).

]]> By: Asgerregsa http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html#comment-99087 Asgerregsa Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:18:27 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1316#comment-99087 I followed all of the steps but "hl2.exe" (Team Fortress 2) still won't close. If I reboot my computer, I can run it, but it just displays the steam pop-up saying "Preparing to launch Team Fortress 2." And then it doesn't. The pop-up goes away again and nothing happens. The process (hl2.exe) is open in the task manager. Now if I try to start Team Fortress 2, the steam pop-up comes up, and then a windoes pop-up comes along saying: "Source - Warning Only one instance of the game can be running at one time." The same happens if I even try restarting Steam. When I reboot my computer the whole thing starts over again. It displays the dark gray steam pop-up - "Preparing to launch Team Fortress 2" - and then nothing happens, and we're where we started. I followed all of the steps but "hl2.exe" (Team Fortress 2) still won't close. If I reboot my computer, I can run it, but it just displays the steam pop-up saying "Preparing to launch Team Fortress 2." And then it doesn't. The pop-up goes away again and nothing happens. The process (hl2.exe) is open in the task manager. Now if I try to start Team Fortress 2, the steam pop-up comes up, and then a windoes pop-up comes along saying:
"Source – Warning

Only one instance of the game can be running at one time."
The same happens if I even try restarting Steam.
When I reboot my computer the whole thing starts over again. It displays the dark gray steam pop-up – "Preparing to launch Team Fortress 2" – and then nothing happens, and we're where we started.

]]> By: ANONYMOUS http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html#comment-97956 ANONYMOUS Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:40:43 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1316#comment-97956 I tried the pskill tool, very useful but doesnt work on one of my proccesses, 'WizardLauncher.exe'. This process is for the computer game Wizard101 and it was working for years. When I open the application it just says, this application is allready running. So find out about taskkill and do the following: taskkill /PID 4800 the application in Task manager just blinks for a few ms. What else can i do; this is really fustrating. I tried the pskill tool, very useful but doesnt work on one of my proccesses, 'WizardLauncher.exe'. This process is for the computer game Wizard101 and it was working for years. When I open the application it just says, this application is allready running. So find out about taskkill and do the following:
taskkill /PID 4800
the application in Task manager just blinks for a few ms. What else can i do; this is really fustrating.

]]> By: Patrik http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html#comment-90050 Patrik Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:41:35 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1316#comment-90050 meh.. i'm sitting here on Win7 64bit. had a crashed/frozen game (GTA San Andreas) in the background eating up my CPU and RAM. couldn't be killed in taskmanager. nothing happened. tried "pskill -t 3120" (GTA's PID) this POS tells me it successfully killed the program.. but actually doesn't do shit. it's still there eating up my CPU and RAM. also tried running cmd as admin to see if that changes anything with pskill. same result.. says it successfully killed the task, but actually doesn't do anything. i then tried "pskill -t gta_sa.exe" ..REALLY BAD IDEA.. pskill then ate up all leftover CPU cycles (system slowed down to a crawl) and RAM usage of pskill climbed and climbed up to about 3 (!!!) fuckin gigabytes.. then my whole system just froze/locked up. hard reset was the only way out. well done MS.. really well done.. a OS that can't fuckin kill dead/locked up programs AT ALL unless you reboot. just plain retarded. man.. i wish i could use more than 3.x GB RAM in Win XP. Vista and Win7 are totally fuckin useless eyecandy bullshit. oh and yeah.. APT ("Advanced Process Termination 4.2" by DiamondCS) didn't work either. ALL of the 16 process killing methods failed. i tried that before pskill. i'm so god damn fed up with this shit.. :( meh..
i'm sitting here on Win7 64bit. had a crashed/frozen game (GTA San Andreas) in the background eating up my CPU and RAM. couldn't be killed in taskmanager. nothing happened.

tried "pskill -t 3120" (GTA's PID)
this POS tells me it successfully killed the program.. but actually doesn't do shit. it's still there eating up my CPU and RAM.
also tried running cmd as admin to see if that changes anything with pskill. same result.. says it successfully killed the task, but actually doesn't do anything.

i then tried "pskill -t gta_sa.exe" ..REALLY BAD IDEA.. pskill then ate up all leftover CPU cycles (system slowed down to a crawl) and RAM usage of pskill climbed and climbed up to about 3 (!!!) fuckin gigabytes.. then my whole system just froze/locked up.
hard reset was the only way out.

well done MS.. really well done.. a OS that can't fuckin kill dead/locked up programs AT ALL unless you reboot. just plain retarded.

man.. i wish i could use more than 3.x GB RAM in Win XP. Vista and Win7 are totally fuckin useless eyecandy bullshit.

oh and yeah..
APT ("Advanced Process Termination 4.2" by DiamondCS) didn't work either.
ALL of the 16 process killing methods failed.
i tried that before pskill.

i'm so god damn fed up with this shit.. :(

]]> By: polas http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html#comment-86822 polas Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:38:20 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1316#comment-86822 This is so stupid and these microsoft companies. From theme doing threi things like to fix something nothing working at all. They just make a damage for computer :( I hate them. And this is not working it's still running ha you'r kidding guys. You will never fix anything from them what are suggesting you. Just screw up yuor pc. Do not believe just do it and you will that i'm right. This is so stupid and these microsoft companies.

From theme doing threi things like to fix something nothing working at all.
They just make a damage for computer :(
I hate them.

And this is not working it's still running ha you'r kidding guys.
You will never fix anything from them what are suggesting you.
Just screw up yuor pc.
Do not believe just do it and you will that i'm right.

]]> By: Silva Mak http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html#comment-86479 Silva Mak Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:45:35 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1316#comment-86479 I am finding that Opera is hanging and then not shutting down. I had a few tabs up and was opening one with some vid clip on it when it froze. Now after restarting, if I click on Opera and try to open afresh rather than with the previous tabs, it still goes unresponsive with the timer up. I have uninstalled and re-installed it, have uninstalled and then re-installed a previous version in case it was an Opera 11.5 problem. I have used tsk manager which won't kill the process and used the above method and the '-t' method and still nothing. I have searched and found many people are having this issue with Opera but no one seems to know either how to fix it or kill it. When it was 'not responding' when opening with previous tabs, it made all other browsers non operable too. I would just use a different browser, however I have a lot of bookmarks on Opera that I don't want to lose. Anyone any idea how to solve this problem? I am finding that Opera is hanging and then not shutting down. I had a few tabs up and was opening one with some vid clip on it when it froze. Now after restarting, if I click on Opera and try to open afresh rather than with the previous tabs, it still goes unresponsive with the timer up. I have uninstalled and re-installed it, have uninstalled and then re-installed a previous version in case it was an Opera 11.5 problem. I have used tsk manager which won't kill the process and used the above method and the '-t' method and still nothing. I have searched and found many people are having this issue with Opera but no one seems to know either how to fix it or kill it. When it was 'not responding' when opening with previous tabs, it made all other browsers non operable too. I would just use a different browser, however I have a lot of bookmarks on Opera that I don't want to lose. Anyone any idea how to solve this problem?

]]> By: Martijn Wismeijer http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-kill-windows-processes-that-wont-die-or-terminat.html#comment-82032 Martijn Wismeijer Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:11:28 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1316#comment-82032 Thanks! It's an ancient tool that still works for me. Of course, fixing the source of the problem is the better option but in some cases (like mine) I'm stuck with beta software that just needs a kick now and then! Thanks! It's an ancient tool that still works for me. Of course, fixing the source of the problem is the better option but in some cases (like mine) I'm stuck with beta software that just needs a kick now and then!

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