Persistent Google Chrome windows even after all visible processes are closed

[Participant]

Hi all

My Google searching on this has been fruitless. Certain websites with video streaming seem to leave persistent windows running that can't be closed down with the usual methods, i.e. trying to click the X or task manager.

A reboot is required.

Any suggestions here? No idea what's causing it.

Thank you.

 

[Murphy]

What error message do you get if you run this powershell command?

Get-Process -Name *Chrome* | Stop-Process -Force -Confirm:$false

^^ That assumes the process is named something-Chrome-something ^^ So as i don't use chrome you may need to change the text between the asterisks to whatever it's called in Task Manager.

 

[Participant]

What error message do you get if you run this powershell command?

Get-Process -Name *Chrome* | Stop-Process -Force -Confirm:$false

^^ That assumes the process is named something-Chrome-something ^^ So as i don't use chrome you may need to change the text between the asterisks to whatever it's called in Task Manager.

I'll check later when I'm home, thanks.

 

[rumple9]

I have exactly same issue with live video streaming sites on MS Edge and over time they eat up all my virtual memory until the computer crashes