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Impossible to kill app
In XP killing an app usually meant just using Task Manager. Sometimes
Sysinternals pskill. But it nearly always worked. Now I have a situation where a normal app (Shareaza) hangs, and is not killable. Taskman tries to kill it, but after issuing the command nothing happens. Pskill just hangs in the attempt. When the app hangs, Vista refuses to restart or shutdown. I have to use the hardware reset. Are there some other tools I can use for killing of this app? Are the (former) Sysinternals apps usable on Vista at all? Other suggestions? |
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Impossible to kill app
wrote in message ... In XP killing an app usually meant just using Task Manager. Sometimes Sysinternals pskill. But it nearly always worked. Now I have a situation where a normal app (Shareaza) hangs, and is not killable. Taskman tries to kill it, but after issuing the command nothing happens. Pskill just hangs in the attempt. When the app hangs, Vista refuses to restart or shutdown. I have to use the hardware reset. Are there some other tools I can use for killing of this app? Are the (former) Sysinternals apps usable on Vista at all? Other suggestions? Try another application? There are many about it seems. Perhaps its just not compatible with Vista yet. |
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Impossible to kill app
"Beck" beck@none wrote in message
... wrote in message ... In XP killing an app usually meant just using Task Manager. Sometimes Sysinternals pskill. But it nearly always worked. Now I have a situation where a normal app (Shareaza) hangs, and is not killable. Taskman tries to kill it, but after issuing the command nothing happens. Pskill just hangs in the attempt. When the app hangs, Vista refuses to restart or shutdown. I have to use the hardware reset. Are there some other tools I can use for killing of this app? Are the (former) Sysinternals apps usable on Vista at all? Other suggestions? Try another application? There are many about it seems. Perhaps its just not compatible with Vista yet. But shouldn't it be possible to kill processes in Vista at least as well as in XP? What if it were a virus or spyware? |
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Impossible to kill app
If you can't end the process, end the process tree. You may have to reboot
after doing so. Then, replace the faulting application with one that works with Vista. -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address) Quote from George Ankner: If you knew as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew! wrote in message ... In XP killing an app usually meant just using Task Manager. Sometimes Sysinternals pskill. But it nearly always worked. Now I have a situation where a normal app (Shareaza) hangs, and is not killable. Taskman tries to kill it, but after issuing the command nothing happens. Pskill just hangs in the attempt. When the app hangs, Vista refuses to restart or shutdown. I have to use the hardware reset. Are there some other tools I can use for killing of this app? Are the (former) Sysinternals apps usable on Vista at all? Other suggestions? |
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Impossible to kill app
wrote in message ... "Beck" beck@none wrote in message ... wrote in message ... In XP killing an app usually meant just using Task Manager. Sometimes Sysinternals pskill. But it nearly always worked. Now I have a situation where a normal app (Shareaza) hangs, and is not killable. Taskman tries to kill it, but after issuing the command nothing happens. Pskill just hangs in the attempt. When the app hangs, Vista refuses to restart or shutdown. I have to use the hardware reset. Are there some other tools I can use for killing of this app? Are the (former) Sysinternals apps usable on Vista at all? Other suggestions? Try another application? There are many about it seems. Perhaps its just not compatible with Vista yet. But shouldn't it be possible to kill processes in Vista at least as well as in XP? What if it were a virus or spyware? It should be possible but if a program is incompatible, the crash/freeze/whatever may go deeper and be impossible to kill. I have had it with a couple of programs. Of course being Shareaza by the very nature of file sharing it is, you may have picked up a virus or spyware that is causing the problem. |
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Impossible to kill app
"Beck" beck@none wrote in message
... It should be possible but if a program is incompatible, the crash/freeze/whatever may go deeper and be impossible to kill. I have had it with a couple of programs. Of course being Shareaza by the very nature of file sharing it is, you may have picked up a virus or spyware that is causing the problem. I don't download software through Shareaza. I sometimes download PDF-files, and I know they can be a safety problem. Considering all the risks that are associated with P2P downloading, I have protected myself in every way possible short of uninstalling or going offline. I would be very surprised if there are viruses or spyware on my computer. No such thing as 100% sure in this world, though. This particular P2P-program was not the point, though. My point was that it was impossible to kill on Vista. When it reaches this state of "not possible to kill", any file operation on the entire partition hangs Explorer and other apps. Its like the partition is locked. I done a diskcheck with no errors. |
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Impossible to kill app
"Rolf Barbakken" wrote in message ... I don't download software through Shareaza. I sometimes download PDF-files, and I know they can be a safety problem. Considering all the risks that are associated with P2P downloading, I have protected myself in every way possible short of uninstalling or going offline. I would be very surprised if there are viruses or spyware on my computer. No such thing as 100% sure in this world, though. This particular P2P-program was not the point, though. My point was that it was impossible to kill on Vista. When it reaches this state of "not possible to kill", any file operation on the entire partition hangs Explorer and other apps. Its like the partition is locked. I done a diskcheck with no errors. I wasn't judging you on what what download, just saying that P2P programs *can* be a hive for virus/spyware etc. But I am sure you already know that :-) I really think that its a case of Shareaza not being Vista compatible. Have you considered trying Bit Torrent for your file needs? Bit torrent program in itself is a bit strange, but uTorrent is friendly. |
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Impossible to kill app
"Beck" beck@none wrote in message
... "Rolf Barbakken" wrote in message ... I don't download software through Shareaza. I sometimes download PDF-files, and I know they can be a safety problem. Considering all the risks that are associated with P2P downloading, I have protected myself in every way possible short of uninstalling or going offline. I would be very surprised if there are viruses or spyware on my computer. No such thing as 100% sure in this world, though. This particular P2P-program was not the point, though. My point was that it was impossible to kill on Vista. When it reaches this state of "not possible to kill", any file operation on the entire partition hangs Explorer and other apps. Its like the partition is locked. I done a diskcheck with no errors. I wasn't judging you on what what download, just saying that P2P programs *can* be a hive for virus/spyware etc. But I am sure you already know that :-) I really think that its a case of Shareaza not being Vista compatible. Have you considered trying Bit Torrent for your file needs? Bit torrent program in itself is a bit strange, but uTorrent is friendly. I've tried uTorrent before. Its good. |