How to Kill a Process? - Computers & Internet

The easiest way is go to task manager, "process", then check any suspecious process is there, if you find some strange process, you can just kill that process, and it wil be working. Or go to windows startup and check the entries there..

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You can easilly kill the process by acessing the taskmanager in droid. This will expose the process so that you can kill the program.You can hold the home button to pull up the recent task window, then, touch the task manager button to access the running processes in the background to kill what you need to kill to preserve battery life.

There appears to be a problem with Firefox that keeps it running in background even when you close it.

Kill the process using task manager and try again.

You could try running the excellent Microsoft purchased Sysinternals Process Explorer instead of the task manager it has a Kill Process Tree (SHIFT + DEL).

Use Task Scheduler in Windows Vista or in XP/2000use Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel to make it run for all users at Startup and then set it to replace normal Windows Task manager, always have it ready minimized to Kill the programs entire process if you have a problem.

You might get issues with Process Explorer with certain PC Games which can throw on error (5024) - Required Security Module can't be activated ( only when you are using sysinternals process explorer check out this link showing SecuROM on the game Spore when using Process Explorer !!!

http://www.thearchitect.co.uk/weblog/archives/2008/09/spore_arrives_drm_copyprotection_is_a_bug_not_a_feature.html

use windows task manager to delete kill this error---

To open the Windows Task Manager, use the combination of ctrl+alt+del or ctrl+shift+esc

Click on the "image name" button to search for " windll32.exe" process by name.

Select the " windll32.exe" process and click on the " end process" button to kill it.

If your running OSX you can kill Entourage from the command line which is much more powerful way of killing a task that won't shut down.
Another way to kill applications is to open a terminal window using the Terminal application. In the window type top -u, making sure that all the characters are lowercase and a space is present between top and -u. A list of the top processes will appear in the window. Identify which process you wish to kill and note the PID or Process ID for that process and then type q. Then type kill -9 followed by a space and the PID. This will almost always kill the process. If the system says you do not have sufficient priviledges, then type sudo kill -9 followed by a space and the PID. SUDO enables you to type in system command and it will prompt you for the system administrator password before executing the command. Type in your password and the system will kill the process.

The majority of those files are supposed to be running. Unless you know which file belongs to which program, I wouldn't try to kill them. Some of those files are drivers that run your sound, video, and other things... some are windows system components and you can't kill them. If there are processes you don't want running you must uninstall the software in add/remove programs.

Go to your main menu and select: System Tools:
Select Task Manager:
And Internet Explorer will show up as a process.
Leave the Internet Explorer Process Highlighted, this may require scrolling through the list till you find it/
Select the Menu key: (the little dot that next to the end call button)
And click the Kill Process button.
Generally I go through once or twice a day and "Kill All Processes" just to clear up the processor load.

Download process explorer

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx'

Extract the program, make a shortcut and copy the shortcut to

START MENU- PROGRAMS - STARTUP
Now every time you start the computer process explorer will start up and you can kill any processes you need

also you can disable programs from startup by

start -> run -> msconfig -> startup tab

depends, do you want it to "exit gracefully", or forcibly shut it down immediately?

To exit gracefully, you use the ExitProcess winapi call. To -kill it immediately, use TerminateProcess winapi call.

For both calls you need the process handler which may be obtained by walking the existing processes on the system

here's an example of just using exitprocess / terminateprocess
http://promo.bigpond.com/homenetwork/html_new.php

here's a more in depth example that actually walks the process list so you can kill the process by "name" instead of by process id:

http://www.physiology.wisc.edu/ravi/software/killproc/