Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to SarahKong's post on April 11, Hi Sarah I tried what is advised under the link you posted. In reply to Shuaibajaber's post on April 11, I might just back up my data, format the drive and reinstall windows.
I think that will be your best bet at this point. Hi again Sarah. Your suggestion to reinstall windows on my existing OS did repair the error message by the way. Maybe the switch is for different sizes of drives?
Interesting though I learned something new today! In reply to SarahKong's post on April 12, This site in other languages x. Some of the most common taskkill. Class not registered. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Cannot find taskkill. Error starting program: taskkill. Faulting Application Path: taskkill.
The file taskkill. Windows failed to start - taskkill. How to Fix taskkill. Step 1: Restore your PC back to the latest restore point, "snapshot", or backup image before error occurred.
In the search results, find and click System Restore. Follow the steps in the System Restore Wizard to choose a relevant restore point. Restore your computer to that backup image. If the Step 1 fails to resolve the taskkill. You'll be prompted with a permission dialog box. In the box, click " YES ". You should have a black screen with a blinking cursor.
SFC will begin scanning for taskkill. Follow any on-screen commands to complete the process. Please be aware that this scan might take a while, so please be patient while it is working.
Then, if that loop is network exchange with other endpoint, then just unplug network cable or disconnect the already established connection. I get a There is no running instance of the task That process really does not want to die!
Show 3 more comments. The taskkill and powershell kill methods didn't work for me; it still said "Access Denied". Thank you! This one still doesn't work in my case. But after 5 mins I still see the VS devenv. I guess nothing but a reboot is the only solution for me. Show 9 more comments. Reboot is the only solution that worked for me so far. The ever excellent Mark Russonovich has a good explanation for unkillable processes.
MaYaN 6, 6 6 gold badges 49 49 silver badges 99 99 bronze badges. Francis Francis 1, 1 1 gold badge 23 23 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. What I did is shut it down, then restart it.
For me computer doesn't restart, freezes on Restarting I can wait 2 hours and then I must manually switch it off by button. DomainsFeatured 1, 1 1 gold badge 20 20 silver badges 33 33 bronze badges. Gnampf Gnampf 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. This worked for me In the case that I had it was a process that was created procedurally by another application while the system was low on resources.
Process Explorer, kill process tree, and several other things failed to work, but this did the trick. Didn't work for me, gave me an error unable to kill process etc etc — rboy. I know its old, but just in case someone else sees this do what I did. Open powershell as Administrator and then run it. At first I ran it not as admin and it told me I couldn't do it. So then I ran it as admin and it worked.
This worked for me on Windows 10 with a misbehaving Windows service. No luck for me even after waiting for more than mins. This doesn't seem to work for me. It says it's successful, but the process still shows up. I'm facing a similar issue too but with microsoft ftp service, says terminated but continues to run cant figure it out — rboy. Danita Danita 2, 4 4 gold badges 23 23 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. How did you discover that the update caused it?
I think I would have never discovered that. I realized the only thing that changed in my machine before the issue become apparent was the updates, so I checked which was my last update and read the release notes. It seemed suspicious and I rolled back to see if the issue was solved, which it was. Then I read on some Apache forums, don't remember which, that this update has caused trouble for them too.
I tried killing and restarting explorer. Zig Zig 61 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. This worked for me, when none of the others did. Thx :D — jk Didn't work for me. Got End Process failed for Access is denied. Happening the same for me. Szczepan Szczepan 2 2 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. I was able to terminate the process with your code - builder.
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