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How to kill process which does not want to? I have Access Denied message when trying to kill the process. I know it can be due to device driver waiting and probably this is the reason.
But my question is how to kill process nevertheless? I am administrator, I don't want a process to wait any device drivers or something. I want it to die.
How to accomplish this?
Running Task Manager, procexp and procexp64 as an administrator didn't help.
What process is it? – Austin T French – 2013-04-19T18:27:59.620
Any which write to disk. For example
javaw.exe
– Dims – 2013-04-19T18:28:55.907Interesting. I can kill the system process and force a blackscreen reboot using Process Explorer, so I am suprised that there are things you can;t kill with it. – Frank Thomas – 2013-04-19T18:29:45.967
I am surprised too. But this is the fact. – Dims – 2013-04-19T18:30:24.910
Is Java running anything else? What account is running it? Yours? Is it a child / parent of anything? – Austin T French – 2013-04-19T18:45:20.223
Nothing special. Java was just an example. Eclipse running Java, Java running Tomcat. Account is mine. The suspected reason is Windows bug in disk driver, so any application can hang such a way. The question is how to kill it. – Dims – 2013-04-19T19:06:30.800