any freeware to kill stuck processes in win 98??

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Hi all,

Any freeware to kill stuck process in win 98? I am using PV2KTray but it
doesn't work.
any other alternatives?

raman
 
@merki.connect.com.au:
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http://www.xmlsp.com/pview/prcview.htm
View/kill processes. Works for me on 98
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If processes are "stuck" then prcview would probably be stuck as well.
Why would you use the above instead of Ctrl-Alt-Del and then selecting
what to close ?

Regards, John.

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Hi all,
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Any freeware to kill stuck process in win 98? I am using PV2KTray but it
doesn't work.
any other alternatives?
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Why do you need a program ? What's wrong with Ctrl-Alt-Del and
selecting what to close ?

Regards, John.

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Use the Process List viewer (in Tools) that comes with Spybot S&D:
http://tomcoyote.org/SPYBOT/
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If processes are "stuck" then the Process List viewer would probably
be stuck as well. Why would you use the above instead of Ctrl-Alt-Del
and then selecting what to close ?

Regards, John.

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If processes are "stuck" then prcview would probably be stuck as well.
Why would you use the above instead of Ctrl-Alt-Del and then selecting
what to close ?
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You're right. I'd use [CTRL][ALT][DEL] first, and then ProcView if the
process was not visible in the [CTRL][ALT][DEL] list. But the man asked
for a freeware app, and a freeware app he got.
If a process is "stuck", then that doesn't necessarily mean that the rest
of the machine is hosed. It often is, in 98, but not always. It
definitely means that it's time to save your work though.......
 
There was a proggy called Y-Kill..
url:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?5000000037816

If Win 98 Hangs, press (ctrl alt y if I remember.. read the documents to
verify).. A nice Skull icon popsup and you can dragen drop the skull on a
froze window app and it will die instantly.. Same principle as X-Kill in
linux.

From experience, if you dragen drop the skul from its place to a blank
desktop area, it'll freeze windows) and a reboot) because it kills the
desktop area app (explorer?).. This app (no matter what anyone says) works
for me, and is quite valuable (and mad it on my top 700MB freewre CD disk).

Hope this helps
-Larry B

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| Hi all,
|
| Any freeware to kill stuck process in win 98? I am using PV2KTray but it
| doesn't work.
| any other alternatives?
|
| raman
|
|
 
John said:
If processes are "stuck" then prcview would probably be stuck as well.
Why would you use the above instead of Ctrl-Alt-Del and then selecting
what to close ?
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Prcview is better than ctrl+alt+del.

Partly because it shows more stuff than ctrl+alt+del and partly it
just *feels* better...
 
If command-line programs are okay, try cmdline.zip from
http://www.cmdtools.com Includes "ps" command to list processes and
"kill" to nuke them.
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If processes are "stuck" then how could one run a command-line
program ? Why would you use the above instead of Ctrl-Alt-Del and then
selecting what to close ?

Regards, John.

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| Hi all,
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| Any freeware to kill stuck process in win 98? I am using PV2KTray but it
| doesn't work.
| any other alternatives?
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There was a proggy called Y-Kill..
url:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?5000000037816
Click to expand...
If Win 98 Hangs, press (ctrl alt y if I remember.. read the documents to
verify).. A nice Skull icon popsup and you can dragen drop the skull on a
froze window app and it will die instantly..
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< snip >

Have you found any advantage(s) of that process over simply going
Ctrl-Alt-Del in '98 and selecting the process to kill ? If so, then
what is/are the advantage(s) ?

If the system is hung then wouldn't Y-Kill be unavailable ?

Regards, John.

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You're right. I'd use [CTRL][ALT][DEL] first, and then ProcView if the
process was not visible in the [CTRL][ALT][DEL] list.
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Have you used it in '98 when the system's processes are "stuck" ? I
doubt it because why would ProcView not be stuck if everything else
was ?
But the man asked
for a freeware app, and a freeware app he got.
If a process is "stuck", then that doesn't necessarily mean that the rest
of the machine is hosed.
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Look at the header. He said "processes". Not "a stuck process".

Note the following :

"What will kill stuck processes ?"

and

"What will kill processes ?"

Notice a difference ?
It often is, in 98, but not always. It
definitely means that it's time to save your work though.......
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Agreed. IF one can do that.


Regards, John.

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<yawn>
Note "process" (singular) in OP's post cf. "processes" (plural) in your
iterative reply.
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Note "processes" (plural) in OP's header.
If news client Reply function is "stuck", why not use
Ctrl-Alt-Del ?
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That sounds like what I asked. So your answer to that question is ...?


Regards, John.
 
John said:
Note "processes" (plural) in OP's header.
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OK, not very clear. I was looking at the body of the message (process)
and skipped over the plural in the Subject header as meaning "any
process". Looks like the OP is no longer interested in the thread
anyway, so we may never know.
 
John said:
I use Ctrl-Alt-Del if the processes in win 98 are stuck. If that
doesn't work then IMO no other program will work either.
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Ctrl-Alt-Del will send a message to an application to close itself
gracefully. The app may not respond properly to this because it is
"hung". These other process killers attempt to end it more forceably, at
a lower level, so often have a better chance of doing so than using
Ctrl-Alt-Del. I've had several problem apps that have misbehaved in this
manner in the past, and process killers have worked where Ctrl-Alt-Del
has failed. BTW, did you ever ask yourself why such process killers were
written in the first place, when Ctrl-Alt-Del was available? :)
 
Hi John..

IYHO nothing works if CTRL ALT DEL doesn't..

get Y Kill.. see for youself.. you'll change your opinion once it saves a
reeeboot, and loss of work... Not sure how it was programmed, but the way it
runs, it blasts through any freezing..

Instead of claiming NOTHING works, get it, install it, memorize the activate
skull key, and wait for a freeze.. try your CTRL ALT DEL and if it don't
work, try the Y-KILL, and start believing. I tell you it works MANY times
over for me with the old Win 98 machine

-Larry B

| On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 06:47:35 GMT, "John Doh" <[email protected]>
| wrote:
|
| >|
| >> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 23:17:59 +1000, "Rahman" <[email protected]>
| >> wrote:
|
| >> >Any freeware to kill stuck process in win 98? I am using PV2KTray but
it
| >> >doesn't work.
| >> >any other alternatives?
|
| >> Why do you need a program ? What's wrong with Ctrl-Alt-Del and
| >> selecting what to close ?
|
| >Maybe because that gets frozen as well, then what do you use?
|
| I use Ctrl-Alt-Del if the processes in win 98 are stuck. If that
| doesn't work then IMO no other program will work either.
|
| Regards, John.
|
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