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I am having a problem where processes are hanging and absolutely refuse to die. I have tried using the task manager and pskill from the console (with admin rights) and while the program will state that it has killed the process it still remains and I cannot open a second process. This has happened with Opera and Truecrypt.

Operating system is Windows 7 Professional (64-bit). Rebooting the computer clears the hung process.

I also tried using a program called Ultimate Process Detail & Killer, which didn't help either.

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  • @Chris Have a look at the related links over here
    – Sathyajith Bhat
    Feb 3, 2011 at 17:17
  • Have you scanned for malware?, have you run a System File Checker?, have you run a chkdsk /f?
    – Moab
    Feb 3, 2011 at 18:52
  • @Moab Tried all that too. Highly annoying to have to reboot everytime this happens. I finally let Truecrypt sit, after about 20 minutes it finally closed on its own.
    – Chris
    Feb 3, 2011 at 19:58
  • Do you have the latest version of Truecrypt? I have had this happen with other applications, I do what you did after terminating the process, just wait, sometimes that is the best solution.
    – Moab
    Feb 3, 2011 at 20:14
  • @Moab: Yes, I have the latest version of Truecypt. I don't want to point at Truecrypt as the culprit as I've experienced it with Opera too. It's like the memory for said application goes into limbo for 20+ minutes before coming out. Opera never came out.
    – Chris
    Feb 3, 2011 at 21:15

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  • what exactly is the ntsd command? any links to the uses, thanks.
    – Moab
    Feb 3, 2011 at 22:00
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    @Moab: ntsd is Windows NT Symbolic Debugger, part of Windows XP and later. (The q command means just "quit".) There's some information at MSDN. Feb 3, 2011 at 22:14
  • Thanks grawity, So that command tells the process to quit? what does -p and -c mean, thanks for your patience.
    – Moab
    Feb 3, 2011 at 22:30
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    @Moab: They're options: -p tells the program that the following argument is a numeric process ID to attach to; similarly, -c precedes a single command - without it, you would get ntsd's interactive mode. Feb 3, 2011 at 22:54
  • Is there any chance to see what does it wait for? Because Miranda and Skype both hang like this and I can't see what may be the core problem, that I need to solve :( May 9, 2013 at 16:16
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Use the following command:

Taskkill /IM **.exe /F
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    ERROR: The process "GitHub.exe" with PID 11112 could not be terminated. Reason: There is no running instance of the task. Mar 26, 2016 at 0:43
  • This does not work.
    – Anixx
    Nov 12, 2016 at 14:33
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Space Tornado Killer might do the trick, as I have it installed on my PC.

Space Tornado Killer is a free Windows utility that allows you to end/kill multiple running Windows processes at once, with one click of a button. Hold down Ctrl and click to select one, two, three or any number of processes. Then simply click Kill Selected or hit F4 to end all the selected processes at once.

This utility is designed to complement Task Manager, not replace it.

For further details & to download

http://www.spacetornado.com/killer/

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