Comments on: Not Responding Permanent Solution

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:40:41 +0000

Hiroshi, thanks for your comments. I just noticed that this is for XP and I have 7. Would doing the above work for 7?

I don’t have any problem closing programs from the Task Manager window – it’s just that too many programs go into Not Responding all to often.

By: Hiroshi

Hiroshi — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:57:14 +0000

@Graham: Download PSTools
http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/PsTools.zip
Open the PsTools folder and copy pskill.exe to your System32 folder.

Next time you have an application that is hanging, and it’s process will not end from Task Manager, make note of its process PID number in Task Manager.

Open up a command prompt (Start > Run > Type cmd > Enter) and type the following command:
pskill e.g.
pskill 1680

If you cant see PID in task manager against every task then click view > select columns and select PID

By: Hiroshi

Hiroshi — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:51:03 +0000

@Graham: Right click on the empty area of the desktop and select New > Desktop shortcut
Copy paste the following path in the target box
C:\Windows\System32\taskkill.exe -f -im e.g.
C:\Windows\System32\taskkill.exe -f -im firefox.exe

Explanation:

a. -f is for force kill and -im is to kill all instances of any process
b. You can get to know the process name for any program through Task Manager under the Process tab . Press ctrl+shift+esc to open task manager.
3. Give a name to your shortcut and click Finish

Or you can simply use ‘Ultimate Process Killer’
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultmprokill/

By: Graham

Graham — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:37:13 +0000

I tried this but don’t see either AutoEndTasks or WaitToKillAppTimeout

Can you give any other suggestions?
Thanks.