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Can't start Task Manager, no way to kill process
Monday, April 28, 2008 at 11:24 am
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Posted by Bathsheba (3 messages posted)

When Vista gets locked up by a rogue process, I would normally start the Task Manager 
to kill the process.  Incredibly, this often isn't possible: Ctrl-Alt-Del does nothing, 
and Start Menu/Run.../taskmgr also does nothing.

How do I kill a process if Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work, and there's no way to launch 
the Task Manager?  This makes no sense -- I have to reboot the whole machine every 
time Firefox hits a plug-in it can't cope with?

Thanks if you can help...

Responses to this message:
re: Can't start Task Manager, no way to kill process (Shawn: Monday, April 28, 2008 at 11:38 am)

re: Can't start Task Manager, no way to kill process (Charlie Hadden: Monday, April 28, 2008 at 2:37 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]

Can't start Task Manager, no way to kill process (Bathsheba: Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 11:24 am)

re: Can't start Task Manager, no way to kill process (Shawn: Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 11:38 am)

re: Can't start Task Manager, no way to kill process (Charlie Hadden: Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 2:37 pm)

re: Can't start Task Manager, no way to kill process (Shawn: Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 3:24 pm)

re: Can't start Task Manager, no way to kill process (Bathsheba: Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 3:44 pm)

re: Can't start Task Manager, no way to kill process (Kiremerwa-Kato Simon: Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 10:28 pm)

re: Can't start Task Manager, no way to kill process (Bathsheba: Tue, Apr 29, 2008, 9:38 am)

re: Can't start Task Manager, no way to kill process (kels69: Sun, May 11, 2008, 1:35 pm)

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