In this instance, the problem lies directly with third-party vendors.
Process Explorer cannot kill the errant Firefox process any better than
Task Manager can. Once the problem executable appears in the 'system'
area it cannot be touched by 'user' processes - such as PE or TM.

Questor

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Try Process Explorer:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb896653.aspx
I've found it more informative, easier to use, and more effective than
Task Manager for killing those annoying "Not Responding" programs.

Maybe someday MS will issue a fix to get rid of the problem with things
not responding, which I experience at least a dozen times a day,
including with Windows own components. This would certainly be an
improvement over their current policy of blaming everything on 3RD party
vendors.

Buddha

"I.C. Greenfields" wrote in message
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How do I get Task manager to work? It doesn't shut down frozen (non
responding) programs including WindowsMail, IE7 or MozillaFF... all of
which "stop responding" constantly. We're all getting sick and tired
of having to reboot to get anything done online. I can't find any
infections on this PC which has WDefender, Avast, Spybot, Adaware,
A-Squared and ZoneAlarm. We ran all these programs, updated, several
times and no viruses or other crapware was found. This Vista Home
Premium is less stable than the old W98 we recently gave away. In
fact we had less problems with W98 than we're having with Vista.
Someone please make some suggestions so we can get some work done.