Killing A Program w/o Task Manager

NickM · 16 Jul 2010 at 22:41

I'm running W7 HP x64. Every so often a process freezes, but using Task Manager to end it does **** all. I know I know I could just restart and it would be fine but its irritating to have to do that just because a program won't end from task manager.

Is there another way to force a process to end when task manager fails to do it?

Thanks.

NickM · 17 Jul 2010 at 01:38

@Aod, Fair enough.

@dl763, Yea I know but I wanted to know if there was a quicker way

@SiriusB, I'm in the Processes tab. It happened a few days ago with MSN and tonight its QuickTimePlayer that wont die.
Tried that PS command as Admin - nothing

NickM · 17 Jul 2010 at 01:45

I copied and pasted what you typed exactly and just changed "Notepad" to "QuickTimePlayer". After hitting enter it just returned the same command prompt

PS C:\Windows\system32>

Am I doing it wrong? Never used PS.

NickM · 17 Jul 2010 at 02:10

It is indeed. Its a *32 bit program according to task manager though in case that makes a difference?

NickM · 17 Jul 2010 at 02:19

Its been having a few problems lately.

*Some graphics not displaying properly.
*Lagging sometimes whenever I get Elevated Permission prompts
*Locking up whenever I use VLC/MPC/DivX Player (maybe I'm just lucky that QuickTime just froze itself and not the entire computer!

)

Maybe it needs a reinstall / new gfx card etc.

NickM · 17 Jul 2010 at 19:41

AcidHell2 said:
it should kill those every time first time in process tab.

Are you clicking on the right one? try killing process tree instead (under right click).

if not you have bigger problems and should think about a reinstall or at least trying to fix the problem.

Tried the process tree, didn't make a difference. It doesn't happen often just annoying when it does.