Way To Kill A Program?
Aug 21, 2005
I was wondering if there is a way to 'kill' a program. Basically for the last few days my windows seems to crash/hang (whatever you want to call it) whenever loading various applications. It seems to be a result of high cpu usage. anyway after is stops i cant end the task or end the process or process tree. It just sits there. I cannot open another instance of the applications either. so my only option is to reboot. I was wondering if there is an application or command that can kill the process. Thus, saving me from rebooting everytime as the shutdown takes along time as well.Also are there any tips on shutting down quickly which making my system unstable.im considering linux as windows just has too many problems.
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Jul 25, 2005
Sometimes when a program is not responding, I try to close it, but it just can't. I hit ctrl-alt-del and try to close it using the task manager, wait for a long time, and I see it is still there. I can't even re-start the windows because it is stop at the freezed program. I need to hard start the computer in order to get away of it.Sometimes even a program can be killed, some of the icons in the system tray is gone. Is it something wrong with the Windows XP? or is it normal?
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Aug 8, 2008
My motherboard died, I changed it from a Pentium 4 to a Core Duo. The guy that did the installation told me he would need to update Windows. Fine.The thing is, he installed a new instance of XP Professional instead of updating/repairing the one I had. Now I boot on a clean Windows that has no access to my apps. Sure, I can go to, say, the Photoshop dir and click on the exe, but it won't run since its dll's and stuff are all on the old Windows' installation.I have 175Gb of apps and data in the HDD and I don't want to wipe it, especially since I don't have the original CDs of many of my apps anymore. Plus there's years of downloaded stuff I don't want to search,download and fine-tune all over again.So, my question is, how can I kill this new version and fix my old one so it does work; make the new one work with all my apps so I can kill the old one; or in any way have ONE XP on my machine, that actually runs my apps, without having to reinstall them all (some I can't even if I wanted/had to)So I have a PC with TWO Windows in it and I can't use either for anything I need. Both are in the same partition, only the second one was installed in WINDOWS. There's no dual-boot option or anything, my original windows is just not being accessed.I have tried to fix the old Windows with my XP CD, but it goes for the new one and I can't make it fix the old, useful one.
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Jul 18, 2005
If I do a clean install of my XP, will it kill all the viruses, spyware and other malware that is on my computer?
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Jan 30, 2005
I have been having problems with my computer perpetually starting itself up, and if it gets that far, hanging on the window xp page. I managed to run a recovery program yesterday which loaded the software , and I�m still having the same problems, but now I�m not even able to run that program again.Is there anything I can do if I can�t even get to the point of logging on in safe mode? I have an ibm netvista that came preloaded with windows xp. I dont have any disk.
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Aug 13, 2009
For you Unix weenies (like me) how do you 'kill -9' a process on Windows XP Home edition? For everyone else (and especially Mr. Gates): How do you kill a process through Task Manager that is owned by SYSTEM? It is a BitDefender (virus scan) process (vsserv.exe) and I occasionally want to kill it just to get some work done on my machine. Task Manager says permisson denied when I try to kill it but I am an administrator on the machine.I tried creating a user account called SYSTEM and one called Administrator (to try and kill it by tricking Bill...oops sorry Mr. G) but in both cases Windows wouldn't create the account because it said an account already exists with that name. Well there are three user accounts created and they ain't Administrator or SYSTEM!
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Mar 24, 2010
Is there a command I can use to kill a process or end a program with CMD? Some people say taskkill but this doesn't seem to work.
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Jul 9, 2005
I've got three or four spyware killing programs on this hunk of junk and none
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please let me know.
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Nov 6, 2009
I have been working on a batch file where in I want to perform few operations like install, configure and stop the process. I was able to start the processes. Now I am looking to end/stop/kill the process. I want to write a batch file for that in win xp. Has anyone worked on this by any chance? I would welcome suggestions at the earliest.
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Nov 12, 2005
I'm not sure how to explain this but I had left my computer on when I went out of town for awhile. When I got home the computer was in standby mode and I could not get out of it so I tried to reboot the computer. It would not turn on so I checked the fan on the power supply and noticed it wasn't working so I replaced the power supply and started the computer. When it was booting up all I got was a blinking light. So I shut it down and installed my hard drive (thinking that was the culprit) into another computer that the same hard drive use to be in and it wouldnt recognize it. I checked the jumpers and the cable and all was correct.
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Jan 29, 2005
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Jun 19, 2005
I downloaded a program from Ebay and after installing it I noticed it didn't have a uninstall. I used my add & remove program to uninstall the program but not all of it got uninstalled. I deleted the folder and then did a search in my registry for anything with refernce to the programs name "Ebay's Blackthorne" and deleted all entries with that name.Every time I reboot windows tries to install something for Blackthorne and I have to keep cancelling it out.
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Apr 17, 2010
I tried to use "Compressed (Zipped) Folders" in Windows. It didn't work. Then I tried right clicking on a folder/file, selecting "Properties", pushing the "Advanced" button,I then checked "Compress contents to save disk space",and the folder and its contents turned blue but the size of the files,seeming, hadn't changed. Have the files actually been compressed? Should I get an external ZIP program? If so can you recommend a program?
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Aug 22, 2005
Have had a problem for some time now. Program keep looking up and then get this error report. Have done a registry clean,
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Mar 21, 2005
It is frustrating having every program automatically install to program files, including minor things like audio attachment. I know I'll end up with tons and tons of folders in program files. Beyond that, I can't access program files from the other computers on the network. Is there a good way to reorganize/move files to my C drive in a way that would be efficient and wouldn't require reinstalling every single program in a different place?
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Sep 10, 2005
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May 2, 2005
I have a Canon CanoCraft CS-P Series Scanning program and when I logg on as guest, I get an error saying, " Canon CanoCraft CS-P Series has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. " On all other accounts, the program works normally. It only doesn't work on the Guest account.
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Dec 30, 2004
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Apr 6, 2006
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Jun 21, 2005
Even though I removed a program it is still in the control panel's add/remove programs list. How can I get rid of it?
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Sep 18, 2005
is it possible to remove a installed program's name from the add/remove program list in the control panel. i recently had an important program removes from my system by mistake. i would like to make it im possible for tis to happen "by mistake" again. i want to keep the program installed but not have it show up in the list of programs in add/install programs.
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Feb 2, 2009
I have a dos based application, previously running well in windows 98, but because of bought a new pc system, i wish to use the application in my new pc, running XP. But unluckily, it shows "Not Authorized program!" everytime i try to run the .pif file, or even directly running the .exe file.
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Apr 30, 2006
I have Windows XP. Recently got F-Secure anti virus, snags the trojan stuff but sometimes says "can't be accessed" when I delete it. Recently Window defender has been going off constantly, it has to restart the computer *** of the time. Ealier when it did this all sorts of things started flasing ending with an error report to/from Microsoft. I followed their directions to remove a program. NOW HERES THE PROBLEM; to uninstall "The Best Offers" program the "Bad Guys" want me to download something, save it and disenable security. Should I follow the uninstall directions or is there a better way
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Sep 18, 2007
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Dec 13, 2008
When I try to execute the 'exe' program, I get the message shown in the subject line, plus 'can't find the 'exe' program or one of it's components', etc, etc.I have been working on this for the past three days with no success.Now. just this morning, I installed this program on my desktop computer, with the identical OS and HD configuration (EXCEPT XP-2) and the exe program works fine.
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Aug 9, 2005
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Feb 18, 2007
I go into my Control Panel and I click Add or Remove Program and I get this Run a DLL as an App has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. With this extra info:
AppName: rundll32.exe AppVer: 5.1.2600.2180 ModName: unknown
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 00750063
I have already gone under MSConfig and unchecked the rundll32.exe from start up.
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