KILL ROGUE PROCESSES

I recently had to use two of the Windows 98 Resource Kit's utilities to solve a Windows 95 problem. The problem was this: A program on a Windows 95 computer wasn't responding and wouldn't restart. However, I couldn't just restart the computer to fix the problem because another program was well into running a long report.

Using the Tlist.exe utility, I retrieved a list of all of the processes on the computer and identified the Process ID (PID) of the program that wouldn't respond (-355185).

I used the Kill.exe utility and typed the command:

kill -355185

to kill the process.

You can also insert the name of the .exe file that Tlist.exe displays against the PIDs in the Kill.exe command. If the process refuses to stop, you can add the -f switch to the end of the Kill.exe command to force a process to be stopped.