Hey guess what, I know what the problem is. Microsoft had another brilliant
idea (sarcasm--as usual) called "Clean service shutdown" .

Microsoft's SysInternals software engineer Mark Russinovich, describes this
at WinHEC 2007 (link at bottom of my post).

"One of Windows' historical problems concerns its system shutdown procedure.
In XP, once shutdown begins, the system starts a 20-second timer. After that
time is up, it signals the user whether she wants to terminate the
application herself, perhaps prematurely. For Windows Server, that same
20-second timer may be the lifeclock for an application, even one that's busy
spooling ever-larger blocks of data to the disk.

In WS2K8, that 20-second countdown has been replaced with a service that
will keep applications given the signal all the time they need to shut down,
as long as they continually signal back that they're indeed shutting down.
Russinovich said developers were skeptical at first about whether this new
procedure ceded too much power to applications; but in practice, they decided
the cleaner overall shutdowns were worth the trade-offs."

WOW WHAT A GREAT IDEA, LETS ASK PROGRAMS NICELY TO SHUT THEMSELVES DOWN!!!
No wonder the Vista Task Manager is completely useless and can't kill
anything. What a bunch of BONEHEADS. Your OS can't even dump a hanging
process.

LINK:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Top_...008/1180045346




"j90qfj90q34fjwefi2" wrote:

> It's really great at ending the processes that are running fine, but when one
> hangs, oh no, you're doomed. Reboot.
>
> It's not even the TASK MANAGER. VISTA simply does not have the capability
> to manage processes. Even 3rd party programs like Process Explorer and
> Process KO can't do it.
>
> My suggestion to MS would be, if you're going to mane an OPERATING SYSTEM,
> spend less time on the USELESS AERO GLASS SKIN and more time on actual
> FUNCTIONALITY.
>
> Your TASK MANAGER should be able to MANAGE TASKS.
>
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