Visual Process Kill

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asdf wrote:

> Is there anything like that for Windows 2000/XP.
> In Gnome for Linux there is a utility where you simply move a cursor over
> the process you want to terminate and it kills it for you. I'm looking for
> somethig similar for my WinXP box.


What's wrong with the built-in task manager?


-WD

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sometimes it takes a while for task manager to start if there is a runaway
process that takes away 100% of cpu time. Also sometimes it doesn't work
right away. For example right now i have spybot that has crashed. I tried to
close it with task manager for the last 30 minutes but it's still there. the
only way to close it is probably having to logoff. But under gnome I
remember that visual utility would close the process immediatelly.

Thanks for replying.

"Will Dormann" <wdormann@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> asdf wrote:
>
> > Is there anything like that for Windows 2000/XP.
> > In Gnome for Linux there is a utility where you simply move a cursor
over
> > the process you want to terminate and it kills it for you. I'm looking
for
> > somethig similar for my WinXP box.
>
>
> What's wrong with the built-in task manager?
>
>
> -WD

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asdf wrote:

> sometimes it takes a while for task manager to start if there is a runaway
> process that takes away 100% of cpu time. Also sometimes it doesn't work
> right away. For example right now i have spybot that has crashed. I tried to
> close it with task manager for the last 30 minutes but it's still there. the
> only way to close it is probably having to logoff. But under gnome I
> remember that visual utility would close the process immediatelly.

It's got no GUI, but pstools works well:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtm...


-WD