“utorrent.exe” simply will not end

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Kill window or application just like linux do
Cannot Kill Process in Vista 64

I had closed an instance of utorrent. The task no longer appears in Applications, however the process utorrent.exe appears in Processes tab of Task Manager. I tried to kill using:

Kill process button in Task Manager
Kill process option in SysInternals Process Explorer
Suspend, resume, restart in SysInternals Process Explorer
command prompt by using the command taskkill /f /im utorrent.exe
Stop-Process commandlet in Windows PowerShell.

All of these have failed, the process just doesn't end. I cannot restart uTorrent because of the existing process running. Is there anyway I can kill this without having to resort to a system reboot ? I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate, OEM.

Sathyajith Bhat

Posted 2010-03-29T11:26:36.587

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2http://superuser.com/questions/66176/kill-window-or-application-just-like-linux-do http://superuser.com/questions/48864/shortcut-to-kill-an-application http://superuser.com/questions/69783/how-to-monitor-and-kill-a-process-automatically-on-windows-by-process-name – random – 2010-03-29T11:29:55.520

Sathya, have you tried pskill.exe from SysInternals? – quack quixote – 2010-03-29T11:52:48.770

Could something be respawning this process? – Fred – 2010-03-29T12:27:41.183

http://superuser.com/questions/66474/cannot-kill-process-in-vista-64/124937#124937 – Ye Lin Aung – 2010-03-29T12:53:52.030

Regarding open connections - That isn't necessarily true. I can clearly view that there are no connections being used on the entire machine other than 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1, and various connections between other machines on my lan that are not being made with utorrent. It still won't close. I usally use TakeCommand's taskend to kill it. – ClioCJS – 2015-10-05T19:29:07.923

You don’t need to kill it. The problem is that it still has open network connections and is waiting for them to close. You can try closing them manually (e.g., with TCPView), but sometimes µTorrent gets stuck in a loop where it opens new connections while waiting for others to close (usually when you have a lot of active torrents running). To “kill” it, simply block µTorrent from the Internet (probably easier to just disconnect the whole system). Then utorrent.exe will end ~2 seconds later.

– Synetech – 2013-10-19T14:41:32.427

1In addition, I have learned a long time ago that there are certain things that will cause a program to become “unkillable”. It usually ends up being due to some sort of unusual resource being in use (thus likely due to a driver problem). Some of these include programs that use tv-tuners, optical drives, and network connections. Occasionally they will “super-lock” for some reason and pretty much the only way to kill them is to reboot. – Synetech – 2013-10-19T14:43:13.137

“utorrent.exe” simply will not end

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