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    Posted: 01 May 2006 at 12:28pm
PSKILL 1.11 is awesome. But for me, it hangs almost every time. I have to use "pskill pskill.exe" to kill it.
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I never have any problem with pskill.
To me is the best killer around, and much more practical and easy to use than microsoft's taskkill and 2000' kill.
I dont use "Windows + R" to write those cmd /c etc, I use a cmd window so in case the stuff goes long i can do Alt + Space then C to close the cmd .
PSKILL can kill any of those fat processes like lsass or even services.exe, what coust the shutdown of the machine but shutdown -a make you stay but the system will be lost about who the heck are you.

(very sorry for my english grammatics and spellings, but i am sure anyone can get the little light of the idea even across the darkness of a text like this you get from me)



Edited by JAyL - 08 March 2006 at 12:09pm
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Hi,

I have the same problem on Windows 2000.  It happens rarely (about 1 kill in every 100) but it hangs my script when it does happen.

Perhaps there should be a timeout in pskill, so that if it hasn't killed the process and its descendants within a specified amount of time, then it exits and sets errorlevel to a particular value to indicate this.  The caller can then decide whether or not to try again.

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Jonny
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Hello,

generally pskill works fine but at random pskill would hang and take 50% cpu. I am using it to stop a local process by calling

cmd /c pskill -t <pid-of-cmd>

the application i am killing is started as:

cmd /c notepad

I am running on XP prof. pskill v1.11

I have not encountered this problem on w2k nor nt.

Help on how to avoid this is welcome.

- Ron


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