I was able to hang up my WinXP today with a simple but harmful thread that
was trying to delete somebody else’s memory.
When I run the program my notebook went unconscious and I did not know how I can
quickly kill the bad application.
I was wondering is there some tool on Windows which is as helpful as “kill -9 pid” on Unix.
Finally I added two shortcuts to my taskbar.
First one, shutdowns session almost immediately without waiting for programs to end gracefully:
shutdown.exe -f
Basically, it does the same job as logoff.exe.
Another shortcut I made uses killtask tool to kill the devend.exe (Visual Studio Development Environment)
and all its child processes.
taskkill.exe /IM devenv.exe /T
I wonder is there any influence on the system resources when I kill an application with taskkill?
Theoretically it should be fine I quess.