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Cannot end Windows 7 process, even tried pskill

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Mar 15, 202620047 views
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I am having a problem where processes are hanging and absolutely refuse to die. I have tried using the task manager and from the console (with admin rights) and while the program will state that it has killed the process it still remains and I cannot open a second process. This has happened with Op…

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Fix for: Cannot end Windows 7 process, even tried pskill

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Try the debugger: Processes can be unkillable if they are waiting for an I/O or similar operation to finish ("uninterruptible sleep") (see also [1]) or if they are already dead1 (aka "zombie processes" in Unix). 1The Old New Thing: Why do some proce…

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