How to kill a process that has quit responding
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How to kill a process that has quit responding
Win XP home. Athlon 2000+, 512 MB ram. A window popped up just a few moments ago FTP Folder Error "Windows cannot access folder. Make sure you typed the name correctly and that you have permission to access the folder." Details: "Operation timed out." I clicked on the link 2 hours ago.
This window won't close. The cursor shows an hourglass when over this window. Otherwise things appear normal.
Control-Alt-Delete - Windows Task Manager does not show a runaway process. How do you end or kill this process, even how to identify it?
This window won't close. The cursor shows an hourglass when over this window. Otherwise things appear normal.
Control-Alt-Delete - Windows Task Manager does not show a runaway process. How do you end or kill this process, even how to identify it?
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If you can't find the process (or application), you could just logoff of WinXP and log back on. Of course, you'll need to save everything and shutdown other programs first.
You could also try shutting down processes that you don't need and see if you can find it.
If it's using any CPU processes (unlikely) you could look at the CPU usage column to try to narrow it down.
Other than that, there's not much you can really do. It sounds like a system process though - so that narrows it slightly.
Of course, it's probably an Explorer process - so it's not going to show up anyway. You could, however, end the Explorer process and it will automatically restart, but some programs will be missing from the Task Bar.
Good luck!
You could also try shutting down processes that you don't need and see if you can find it.
If it's using any CPU processes (unlikely) you could look at the CPU usage column to try to narrow it down.
Other than that, there's not much you can really do. It sounds like a system process though - so that narrows it slightly.
Of course, it's probably an Explorer process - so it's not going to show up anyway. You could, however, end the Explorer process and it will automatically restart, but some programs will be missing from the Task Bar.
Good luck!
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I have run into this before. I have just ignored the window (fortunately it let me put other windows on top of it). Eventually I got around to rebooting and of course that took care of the problem.
By the way, if you are going to go to the trouble of logging out to fix the problem, you might as well reboot. Since you are not sure exactly what caused the problem, and since windows is known to be less than perfect, why press it.
By the way, if you are going to go to the trouble of logging out to fix the problem, you might as well reboot. Since you are not sure exactly what caused the problem, and since windows is known to be less than perfect, why press it.
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Yup Reboot
I also believe re booting would take care of the problem?
I know some people that won't reboot thou cause there scared
they are going to loose something by re booting...some files etc. etc.
I've gotten into problems similar I had to reboot run scan disk
maybe run a virus program and It solves the problem..but no
I can't guaratee you won't loose programs thou?
I know some people that won't reboot thou cause there scared
they are going to loose something by re booting...some files etc. etc.
I've gotten into problems similar I had to reboot run scan disk
maybe run a virus program and It solves the problem..but no
I can't guaratee you won't loose programs thou?