Hi Ristar,

Have you sorted this problem? I have the same issue with killing
Counter-Strike on my vista. And it's so annoying! Have to
reset my hardware to sort this out.

Does anyone have the same problem? MS guys have you heard about that?

Thanks,
Ivan

PS has found link on the reported issue, please press "I Agree" to vote
for it
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...ista.gen eral

Ristar;815111 Wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how do i kill a process that froze? ie. Firefox, IE, and all that, that
> are
> not responding?
>
> so far, i have tried "taskkill /im <pid>", and process explorer.
>
> taskkill always returns a message telling me that a kill command has
> been
> sent, but the process is still not killed.
>
> process explorer, no matter how many times i try killing it, the
> process
> still wont be killed.
>
> seriously, this inability to kill processes that are frozen is getting
> really, really irritating.


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ivanv