How do I kill an unresponsive process or task in Windows when it becomes completely unresponsive (window becomes a ligt grey, cursor a rotating blue ring)?
- Clicking
[X]
or trying to end process intaskmgr
has no effect [status is unresponsive]. - Task can't be killed using Process Explorer [
procexp
] or with any of the following:TaskKill /f /pid %pid% TaskKill /f /im %exec.exe%
Stop-Process -Force -Name $name
shutdown /r /t 0
and they are killed for good...