Killing Tasks

[neobyte]

In linux, if one of my tasks freezes (or I'm just too lasy to close it nicely), I can use the kill app to IMMEDIATELY kill the process.

However, in MS Windows when a task freezes and I CTRL-ALT-DEL to get to end the task or the process tree, more often than not the task takes a while to eventually die, and sometimes not at all.

Does anyone know of an application for windows that will immediately kill a task (similar to kill in Linux)?

 

[Deenem]

ProcessExplorerNT www.sysinternals.com

 

[thisgeek]

Command prompt.

tasklist to get the pid (or use taskmanager)

taskkill /f /pid <pid>

Note that you can kill so-called unkillable tasks with this.