Why sometimes Windows cannot kill a process?
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Mar 15, 202660203 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Right now I'm trying to Run/Debug my application in Visual Studio, but it cannot create it because the last instance of the is still running. Then, by using the Task Manager I'm trying to kill it, but it just remains there with no signal of activity. Beyond that particular case (maybe a Visual Stud…
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app.vshost.exe
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Fix for: Why sometimes Windows cannot kill a process?
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The cause is usually some unresponsive driver which has unfinished I/O requests in progress. See Mark Russinovich's blog entry Unkillable Processes (archive)
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