Comments on: How to Kill Stubborn Processes That Fail to End Process in Task Manager

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:57:28 +0000

It seems to work if you use the option -t “pskill -t 5016″ where 5016 represents the PID

By: dave

dave — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:32:06 +0000

doesnt work

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By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:36:45 +0000

Fail? Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder will not close for me…. the window closed but the process remains unallowing me to reopen the window and record from my A/V card because the first process seems to still be using the card.

By: vuser1

vuser1 — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:09:18 +0000

In Vista pskill can kill only same processes which Task Manager or Process Explorer. None can kill some hang processes, system even can’t reboot! One has to use good old reset button or power plug…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:35:37 +0000

Didn’t work for me, either. Bah. Hard reboot.

By: Hi

Hi — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:01:54 +0000

Fail. Doesn’t work.

By: Niveditha

Niveditha — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:29:32 +0000

u said it wudnt affect other process, but my system is shutting down immediately..

By: infiniter

infiniter — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:49:54 +0000

In my case, whether PsKill nor Process Explorer where able to kill a task that was not protected. It was a simply hanging process with some threads. Nothing special.

By: Denise R

Denise R — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:41:17 +0000

Pskill and process explorer are great tools, but if a process really hangs, neither of them will manage to kill it. I have a terminal server where cmd.exe hangs for one users. I can’t reboot because of all the other users, and the poor user who owns the cmd.exe process is unable to log out. Is there another way to really force the process dead? I can’t even force logoff, it fails.

By: crap

crap — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:09:08 +0000

dude.. this app doesn’t work!
The official way to end unresponsive tasks in Vista is to pull the power plug.. everyone agrees to that..

By: rick`

rick` — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:28:44 +0000

Just downloaded this to kill a number of programs which task manager isn’t ending. At first I though it was just another app taking my cpu cycles but 2hrs+ later, that app is done and the process is still running… even after using this

By: Hannibal001

Hannibal001 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:31:03 +0000

Process explorer from sysinternals can do basically the same thing and can be used to replace task manager,although I have not had to ever try to kill a process w/ it on a network system it does an efficient job on main system.
It also has a handle finder for unshown processes which seems to work fine.
This may be a simpler solution for some less proficient users.