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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 – Sathya♦ Feb 3 '11 at 17:17
Have you scanned for malware?, have you run a System File Checker?, have you run a chkdsk /f? – Moab Feb 3 '11 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 '11 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 '11 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 '11 at 21:15
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what exactly is the ntsd command? any links to the uses, thanks. – Moab Feb 3 '11 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. – grawity Feb 3 '11 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 '11 at 22:30
@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. – grawity Feb 3 '11 at 22:54
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