![]() ![]() How To Kill Windows Processes That Won't End - Terminate. Ever have an application that just hangs and never returns to normal or terminate? So you open up Windows Task Manager, find the application process, right click on it and select End Process. Nothing happens! The process is still running and the dead application continues to cause high CPU utilization to the point where you can't do much with your computer. You repeat the process. ![]() Nothing again. One more time. But that's too risky and more times than not will cause loss of data or system boot problems. What you need is a utility that can kill and terminate stubborn processes, the first time, using Ps. Kill from Microsoft Sysinternals. Ps. Kill requires no installation and is a stand alone executable that is run from the command line. It can kill process locally or remotely. Well, having pesky processes, that refuse to terminate and continues to hog CPU cycles, can be frustrating to the point where you just want to hit the power button. Recently a few Google Chrome users have reported that if they. Ps. Kill is bundled with Sysinternals Ps. Tools which is a collection of command line tools for Windows computers. To use Ps. Kill, you want to get things setup first: Download Ps. Tools from Microsoft site, and unzip to your desktop. ![]() ![]() Open the Ps. Tools folder and copy pskill. System. 32 folder. The reason for this is that pskill will be in your executable environment path so you can just type the command, with out specifying the full path to the folder and file location. Next open Task Manager (right click on the taskbar then select Task Manager ) and make sure the PID column is visible (may need to use horizontal scroll bar to scroll to the right to see PID column). If it is not visible, click on View \ Select Columns. But be careful, killing processes this way may cause data loss with the application that was terminated (such as if you were using a text editor or Microsoft Word). At least you won't have to reboot. ![]()
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