BF2S Forums force kill tip

Yeah, Ctrl+alt+del is so overrated...

so do we do this with the spaces in between or all as one?

Noobeater wrote:

I generally use Alt F4.

Interesting to know though.

i think alt+f4 is a regular "end task," and doesnt cause a force kill... it might, though, im not sure.  i think its just force of habit for me to use taskkill, bc it always works to kill all processes. 

Shadow893 wrote:

so do we do this with the spaces in between or all as one?

yes with the spaces.  there is more to that command than just the switches i showed there.  from a command prompt, type taskkill /? and you can see all the available options.  you can kill by PID, kill processes on a remote machine (very useful for servers), and set filters to show by type.  it is closely tied to the tasklist command, which gives a great deal more information about tasks than the task manager does.  for instance, you can type:

tasklist /svc

to list all of the services running inside of your processes.  say you just installed something, and all of a sudden one of your svchost.exe processes is hogging your resources, you can use the above command to list all the services running inside the svchost process. you can then identify the cause of the problem.  type tasklist /? from a command line to see available options.

just for the lulz type taskkill /im lsass.exe /f

Last edited by steelie34 (2008-03-04 12:28:28)

Ryan wrote:

Ctrl+Alt+Del > Processes > Kill the internet explorer/firefox process. Same thing.

wrong

you must not have read my other posts.  using the end process button doesn't "forcefully" kill a process like the /f does on the taskkill command.  and, if you have multiple processes running with the same name, the taskkill will close them all, instead of having to click on each one in task manager.

try it.  open three browser windows, and close them all with task manager.

now do the same thing with taskkill... see the difference?

Last edited by steelie34 (2008-03-04 17:55:41)

PigPopTart wrote:

steelie34 wrote:

just for the lulz type taskkill /im lsass.exe /f

lsass.exe is the fucking file that cannot be found on my computer....it has been epic fail for 3 months cause I can't get into windows and i don't want to reformat.

Repair install.

where would i type this in?

PBAsydney wrote:

Tehremos wrote:

where would i type this in?

run > cmd

or just the run line... both work.  u won't see all the feedback if you use the run line, but its a bit faster

Last edited by steelie34 (2008-03-06 06:32:55)

thats a toughie.  the most i can find online is this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/150497/en-us

but it seems to apply to NT and assumes you have a recovery floppy available.  basically just substitue the \windows folder when in it references the \winnt folder.  this *might* work, otherwise you'll have to find an installation cd.

Last edited by steelie34 (2008-03-06 10:48:44)

sinnik wrote:

hmm both commands aren't recognised by my sys (xp home) either in the run box or as a command prompt - any ideas?

unfortunately these do not work on XP home.  only pro and vista... sorry
for XP home you can use:

tskill iexplore.exe

just substitute the process name in place of the iexplore.exe, but it doesnt have the ability to force close, so you are better off with the task manager.

Last edited by steelie34 (2008-03-06 11:41:06)

elbekko wrote:

steelie34 wrote:

Ryan wrote:

Ctrl+Alt+Del > Processes > Kill the internet explorer/firefox process. Same thing.

wrong

you must not have read my other posts.  using the end process button doesn't "forcefully" kill a process like the /f does on the taskkill command.  and, if you have multiple processes running with the same name, the taskkill will close them all, instead of having to click on each one in task manager.

You must not have read his.

In the task manager, go to Processes. Not Applications. Right-click on the process, and select End Process or End Process Tree. It'll forcefully kill that process.

no!  try to close lsass.exe from the processes tab, then use taskkill.  task manager is not always a force kill.  AND, you cannot kill mulitple processes with the task manager, which is the true usefullness of this command.  he said using the task manager processes tab can end them exactly the way taskkill can, which is wrong.  the end process tree just closes the process and any process initiated by the one you are killing.  but if you have several processes open indenpendant of each other, this will close them ALL at the same time.

edit: in vista, the task manager does use a force kill procedure, which it does not in XP pro, so i stand corrected.  but there are still merits to the taskkill utility like closing process running within services, and closing multiple processes at once.

Last edited by steelie34 (2008-03-06 11:58:24)

sinnik wrote:

thanks for clearing that up Is there any way to get something similar to the tasklist command for home as i have 7 svchosts running and one takes up a wad of memory atm

of course!  go here --> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysint … lorer.mspx

and download process explorer.  i would encourage anyone who uses windows to download this utility.  it is unbelievably useful with the amount of information it gives.  it's basically like the task manager on steroids, and shows an easy-to-understand interface with alot of power to manipulate the running processes on your system.  it's part of the sysinternals set of utilities, and is definitely one of the more useful features.  all of it was written by a guy named Mark Russinovich, who is a bit of hero for his work combatting windows root-kits with his utilites.  he is now working for Microsoft (money talks i guess) and all of his tools can now be downloaded from them for free. 

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