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thecoolest
07.05.10, 13:17
How To Kill Unresponsive Programs without The Task Manager

Windows is generally not known for its stability. Among other things there are frequent “Not Responding” applications. The reasons may vary from less RAM to Viruses to poorly designed applications. So what do you do when an application hangs up?

I bet you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del or fire up the task manager in some other way, reach for the application and choose “End Task”. Now there is nothing wrong with this approach, in fact as long as it gets the job done it doesn’t matter how you do it. However, ever had the situation where the task manager itself takes ages to load up? Of course it can happen because task manager does a lot of other things besides just ending tasks so it requires that much more resources. Apart from that, how about ending the hung applications with just a single click?
Yeah! you can do so. Its simple to achieve. Just follow along:

* Right click on the desktop
and choose New > Shortcut

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* In the dialog box
that appears just type the following:
taskkill.exe /f /fi “status eq not responding”

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* Give it a name of your choice

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* Now just wait for something to start “Not Responding” and let loose your Task Killer!
So what did we do exactly? We just created a shortcut to run a command. The command being taskkill. Whenever you double click the shortcut you will invoke the said command which takes care of the rest. In particular the command we use says that kill all taskes whose status is equal to “not responding” and kill them forcefully (/f).

The /fi switch is used to filter and pinpoint the application to kill. We are using the Program’s status to filter the applications that are not responding and then kill them. You can filter(and thus kill) by memory usage (equal to, greater than, less than or not equal to), cpu time, window title and others.

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anon
07.05.10, 13:59
What about linking to the source?

saebrtooth
07.05.10, 14:11
How To Kill Unresponsive Programs without The Task Manager (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-kill-unresponsive-programs-without-the-task-manager/)

DarkSaibot v.1.3.10
07.05.10, 14:41
i use unlocker for this and it's working pretty well

UNLOCKER 1.8.9 BY CEDRICK 'NITCH' COLLOMB (http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/)

shoulder
07.05.10, 14:45
i use unlocker for this and it's working pretty well
Same here. :top:

CindyVer
07.05.10, 14:46
Very old news


How To Kill Unresponsive Programs without The Task Manager
by Varun Kashyap on May. 14th, 2009

cheatos
07.05.10, 14:57
Very old news

it is an old news yes, but that doesn't make it less valuable,
also not everyone might know about it (including me)

CindyVer
07.05.10, 15:08
it is an old news yes, but that doesn't make it less valuable,
also not everyone might know about it (including me)

It is not only old ... it is basically copy/paste without mentioning the source.

But good that you good some info out of it ;)

kazuya
07.05.10, 15:09
i just pull out my gun and kill the sucker :biggrin:

cheatos
07.05.10, 15:12
It is not only old ... it is basically copy/paste without mentioning the source.

But good that you good some info out of it ;)

since the full screenshots are made by him, it won't be a copy/paste anymore.
but you are right with the missing source though, he should have linked to it.

SBfreak
07.05.10, 15:34
i use unlocker for this and it's working pretty well

UNLOCKER 1.8.9 BY CEDRICK 'NITCH' COLLOMB (http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/)

It's a great tool but it doesn't work very well on win7 x64:frown:

saebrtooth
07.05.10, 16:10
Ive had problems using on my W7 x64 machine too

DarkSaibot v.1.3.10
08.05.10, 17:04
It's a great tool but it doesn't work very well on win7 x64:frown:

that because you like the fancy..kinky..hotty..win7 :tongue: instead the old and strong with big muscle XP :tongue:

thecoolest
09.05.10, 19:10
windows 7 has several problems..wont be solved without any service pack...coz its WINDOWS..

its gonna be launch soon..64 bit maybe they are making some support site for it too for (all 64 bit versions of windows 7 & windows vista)

zmist
25.06.10, 07:05
they are gona release servise pack for win7.. that is new... not even a yr since win7 is released

Owyn
25.06.10, 09:51
a little noobish :) you could just win+r then taskkill

Sazzy
25.06.10, 11:49
windows 7 has several problems..wont be solved without any service pack...coz its WINDOWS..

Fanboy spotted :lol:
W7 is better than XP imho, and everyone loves XP.


So anyway, what do you do when your explorer gets stuck lol? Just ctrl+alt+del it O:

SBfreak
25.06.10, 15:54
they are gona release servise pack for win7.. that is new... not even a yr since win7 is released
The beta was already released.
Windows 7 Service Pack1 Pre-Beta - FTP RU.torrent

anon
25.06.10, 17:55
a little noobish :) you could just win+r then taskkill

Or just tskill processname if the Terminal Server service is enabled.